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Christianity Not a Default
Christianity is no longer the default faith for Americans, according to half the population. And apparently Christians are leading the charge in that belief. A Barna survey released back in January ...
Save Cash, Get a Freelancer
Like many churches, you’re probably feeling the economic crunch. My own church has certainly contracted some, and I know lots of yours have as well. Our Job Lab has certainly ...
Sunday Blunders Poll Results
You guys are passionate about screwing up on Sunday. Well, not screwing up on Sunday that is. Nearly 400 of you let us know what irks you most when churches ...
Mark Batterson on Church Growth
The lion-wrestling, wild goose-chasing, Church Marketing Sucks-supporting Mark Batterson had some insightful comments to add to our recent discussion on church growth. He talked about outcomes vs inputs in a recent ...
A Church Helping The Church
Uprising Church is uprooting itself from its current meeting space at YMCA and moving … to Sunday nights only. Now, honestly I think I’d miss church on Sunday morning and at ...
The Last TV Evangelist
A year ago I reviewed Branding Faith: Why Some Churches and Nonprofits Impact Culture and Others Don’t, by Phil Cooke. It’s a great book, especially for church leadership that is ...
Lessons from a Mosque: Dealing with Negative Stereotypes
In Minnesota, the heavily Muslim Somali community has been rocked by recent terrorist associations. In October, Shirwa Ahmed, a Somali man from Minneapolis, returned to Somalia and killed himself in ...
To Create or Copy?
It’s a huge question among churches. One side says, “Now now, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel.” The other side says, “But it’s about artistic integrity and beauty, man!” ...
How Would Your Church Respond to a Drunk Pastor?
Monday Morning Insight has been covering compassion on all cylinders recently. We talked about the church that cut off their electricity for missions, but have you heard about the pastor ...
Web Weight Poll Results
Yes! Only 4% of you don’t have a web site! Amen. Excuse me. What I meant to say was: Last week, we were wondering how important you would say your church’s ...
Seth Godin Asks: Is Marketing Evil
Marketing guru Seth Godin asks the question “Is Marketing Evil?” in one of his latest posts. Seth starts by saying that marketing, done well (aka that doesn’t suck), will: 1. Tell ...
Dallas Willard on Church Growth
In a post last week we tried to generate some thinking and discussion on church growth. Ryan Guard offered this nugget from Dallas Willard’s The Divine Conspiracy: “We may not soon ...
Lights Out
Three years ago this month, I wrote a post about experiencing church, stripped down. I included the hypothetical scenario of lights going out to suggest that what we as the ...
Less Advertising, More People
Granger Community Church has realized they can reach more people with less advertising. Executive pastor Tim Stevens explains. Every month they used to mail out thousands of postcards to their ...
Are All Healthy Churches Growing?
So earlier this week Tony Morgan got all a twitter about a quick little post from the Out of Ur blog that poked fun at megachurches: “Is this helpful to the ...
