The individualistic focus of spirituality and healing masks the fact that most religious experience happens in groups, and that the implications of religious experience also tend to be institutionalized in social structures. The thick web of ecumenical and interfaith social service networks that has developed in nearly every village and city over the last century. These networks are rarely organized around theology, although they express a theologically grounded ethic. The organizations still influenced by religious groups. The 75 million people who claim to participate in a worship service at least one a week.
Accurate numbers are almost impossible to find, but are remarkably high.
A health system seeking to align its strengths with the strengths of faith and faith groups will seek a strategic vision of how it relates to the full menu of health assets. Many clergy share the confusion and miss the strategic opportunity to build strong partnerships on the basis of their own enduring strengths. Eight key strengths Congregations are highly complex social institutions that both reflect and shape their local environment. They have received surprisingly little careful academic analysis, although in recent years, a rich flow of documentation has begun. The power to accompany, to be physically present.