Congregation Pulse

After a Series

Additional questions:

6. What was the arc? Looking back, what was the real theme — not the planned one, but the one that emerged?
7. What would you change? If preaching this series again, what order, emphasis, or approach would shift?
8. What's unfinished? What question did the series raise but not answer?

Encoding

Each reflection gets encoded into cognitive-memory:

# After a sermon
python3 /home/user/ken/orchestrator/memory_ops.py encode romans insight \
  "Romans 8:28-30 sermon: 'golden chain' illustration connected strongly. Several people mentioned it after. The section on predestination felt rushed — need more time on that in a future sermon." \
  --tags romans8,golden-chain,predestination,congregation --protected

# After a series
python3 /home/user/ken/orchestrator/memory_ops.py encode romans pattern \
  "Romans 1-4 series: justification arc worked best when built slowly. Congregation needed more on wrath (ch 1-2) before grace (ch 3-4) could land. Don't rush the law." \
  --tags romans-series,justification,pacing,pattern --protected

Linking

Link pulse observations to their sermon-map entries:

python3 /home/user/ken/orchestrator/memory_ops.py link <pulse_id> <sermon_map_id>

Report Format

## Congregation Pulse — [Sermon Title] — [date]

**Passage:** [reference]
**Series:** [if applicable]

### What Connected
- [observation]

### What Fell Flat
- [observation]

### Pastoral Needs Surfaced
- [observation]

### Come Back To
- [topic/passage for future]

### Encoded Memories
- [memory ID]: [brief content]

What This Is NOT

• Not a feedback form (no scores, no ratings)
• Not a performance review (the sermon serves God, not metrics)
• Not public (internal only, never published)
• Not about the preacher's feelings (about the congregation's needs)

Integration

• sermon-map — link pulse to sermon entries
• sermon-planner — pulse data informs what to preach next
• cognitive-memory — observations persist across sessions
• sermon-cross-reference — "we need to come back to X" feeds future planning

Soli Deo Gloria — Shepherd attentively. Remember faithfully.