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Perpetual Church Growth

This is part three in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? The Out of Ur blog from Christianity Today has an interesting post about Jim Collins (author ...

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9 Church Growth Myths

This is part two in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? There are a lot of knee-jerk reactions to church growth. Somehow wanting more people to come ...

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Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell?

Start talking about church growth and things can get ugly. Eyebrows raise. Tempers flare. Comments explode. Just ask any blogging pastor who has broached the subject. It’s as if growing ...

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Church Marketing Philosophy & Free Gas

Another church is giving away free gas. This time it’s the Crossing Community Church in Chandler, Ariz. The church isn’t shy about marketing, even including a section on their web ...

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VBS Meets the 21st Century

VBS–has there ever been a more churchy acronymn? Today those summer church programs for children (Vacation Bible School, for those who aren’t in the know) are far from glorified Sunday ...

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Driving Traffic To Your Blog

You’ve got to love Seth Godin, marketing guru and author of Purple Cow. He posted a wonderfully contradictory post, How to get traffic for your blog, that perfectly illustrates his ...

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Stories of Emergence

You’ve probably heard about the emergent church movement. It’s a collective of ideas that loosely fall under the postmodern label and draw nods or scowls, depending on the crowd (Brian ...

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No Longer Sucks Poll

Last week we asked how you help improve church communication. 25% volunteer, 23% make suggestions and point to good resources and 21% are on a communications team for their church. ...

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Church Marketing Lab Round Up #10

We do this every Friday. You know what to do, right? Good. Friends – graphics for a sermon series on friendship that will appear in the church foyer and also be ...

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Marketing a Church Plant

Ridge Stone Church in Canton, Ga., has launched Ridge Stone Backstage, a blog to share some of the lessons they’ve learned as a church plant that held their first service ...

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Money and the Church

Money is always a touchy issue, especially for churches. There can easily be issues, whether actual or perceived. And while actual abuses cause enormous problems, I’d guess it’s the perceived ...

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Would Jesus Discriminate?

2,000 yard signs, four newspaper ads, 650 bumper stickers, 720 T-shirts and 25,000 door hangers have appeared in the Indianapolis area, all promoting Jesus Metropolitan Community Church as a part ...

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Church Lessons from Six Flags

Tony McCollum of Churchwerx offers four lessons for churches from Six Flags amusement parks: Signage – show then you care Broken rides – deliver what you promise Stupid rules – people are more ...

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The Ins and Outs of Sponsorship for Churches

I was browsing the web site for T.D. Jakes’ 2006 MegaFest Conference and noticed something quite interesting: Coca-Cola, Pine-Sol and Clorox have signed on as sponsors of the larger than ...

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Stock Photography Sucks

In the Church Marketing Lab I’m always applauding people for using original photography. This is why. Jason Kottke points us to some of the drawbacks of stock photography. Like the same ...

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