Church Marketing Sucks

My post-holiday recovery never quite happened, thanks to the fact that my family is trying to sell our house. So I’ve got a pile of links I haven’t had time to blog about. But lucky for you I’ll take the lazy route and throw ’em all up here in one big list. Enjoy:

• Congregations Go High-Tech to Deliver Message – From PowerPoint and basic web sites (ooh, shiny!) to podcasting and blogs.
• Location Doesn’t Matter for Most – Storefront churches are working despite locations: “I quickly discovered that the absence of typical church decorations doesn’t matter a bit. What makes a church ‘church’ is what goes on inside the heart and soul of the pastor and the congregation.”
• How Toyota Would Run a Church – Church Relevance speculates about how Toyota might run a church.
• The 25 Most Innovative Churches in America – Outreach put out the list with help from Tony Morgan, but we’ll link to Church Relevance since they have the list in non-PDF format and show what other lists those churches have landed on.
• What Makes a Church Grow? – Growing churches are often multiracial, have more men than women, make an effort not to be reverent and use drums in worship (gasp!).
• New England Churches Shy From ‘Baptist’ Name – Even NPR is getting in on the church name change game. Dawn Nicole Baldwin is even planning a series on church name changes.
• God Bless the Bulletin – Wow, some newspapers still run bulletin bloopers?