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Increasing Membership The Right Way

JJones

Moderator
Great article! I agree with everything I read and it's refreshing to see other people don't like the idea of cheapening the craft.
 
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Streeter

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snip<<<The answer is not to try to market Freemasonry but instead improve the product, the practice of Freemasonry, to the point where it sells itself. Don’t put the cart before the horse. You can’t talk about how great Freemasonry is until you do a good job of practicing it. Don’t spend all your time and money trying to market a poor product, spend your time and money on making the product better. With a superior product, something they cannot find elsewhere, people will beat down your doors to get in.
So put on great degrees, insure good mentoring, provide extensive Masonic education, see to it that there is great fellowship and perform some meaningful community service or individual aid without expecting anything in return.>>>

brilliant words..
but the trouble is - if you try to improve the best and longest term investment that freemasonry has - and here i mean ritual...
you immediatley encounter considerable resistance and even brutal attitudes of negativity...

robert streeter.
 

JJones

Moderator
but the trouble is - if you try to improve the best and longest term investment that freemasonry has - and here i mean ritual...
you immediatley encounter considerable resistance and even brutal attitudes of negativity...

Are you talking about making changes to the ritual? If so then I don't think that's the point the author is trying to make. I think the point was that we need to improve our ability to perform the ritual in a manner that's inspiring and moving. I've seen ritual where the WM had to be prompted the entire way through and I've seen ritual where the WM knew all the work but it just sounded as though he was reciting the lines (this is mostly a let down during degree work).
 
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