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The Future of Church
Today I stumbled across a Collide magazine article from last month that pondered the future of the church in 2034. It’s a lengthy piece that imagines what church may be ...
Echo, God As Second Banana
“Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.” —Neil Postman The second annual Echo Church Media Conference ...
Keeping Online Conversations Clean
Many of your churches have Facebook fan pages, Twitter feeds, Internet campuses, live chat abilities, Internet-capable computers on-site and a thousand other whizz bangs and gadgets. With all of these things, ...
Thanks, Sponsors!
We’d like to take a quick break from our regularly-scheduled spoon-fed church marketing knowledge to thank the companies who sponsor us at Church Marketing Sucks. We’re not simply acting as ...
Selling Your Church for Your People
We’ve got this church building, worth a shade over a million dollars, and it’s almost completely paid off. For many churches, this would be time to start dreaming of stuffing the ...
New Churches Poll Results
Recently, we took a look at the three big reasons people choose a church. It essentially breaks down to theology, ministry and fellowship. So what is it that drives you ...
More Church Traffic Jams
National Community Church pastor Mark Batterson visited Woodlands Church in Texas this weekend and shared this perspective: “When I got to Woodlands Church I couldn’t believe how many cars were in ...
Church Marketing Lab: Logos, Slides and Beyond
Another great week has come and gone in the Church Marketing Lab. People are coming up with team names, re-emerging in creative work after child bearing and finding churches in ...
Church Communications Strategy Coaching Network
Communications Director Kem Meyer is launching a new coaching network this fall for those involved in church communication. That could be a pastor, a creative or anyone else involved in ...
Five-Year Anniversary
On July 22, 2004 the first Church Marketing Sucks post appeared. It’s hard to believe we’ve been at this for five years. In Internet terms that makes us a dinosaur. ...
This Old Site Poll Results
Our church web site used to be the sort of thing you mumbled. And you only mumbled after you unsuccessfully tried to “accidentally” give a wrong address at least twice. ...
Preaching Zen
We’ve had a lot of comments on last week’s post about John Piper’s thoughts on video and mass media in sermons. Short recap: Piper doesn’t like them. You can read all ...
Updates from the Job and Freelance Lab
You don’t need me to let you know about any economic troubles. And as many folks haven’t been hiring, things have been a bit more quiet around the Job Lab ...
Keeping Preaching Pure
John Piper is someone I respect to an extraordinary degree. We might not agree on everything, but on those matters, if you want to be safe, you should defer to ...
The Episcopal Church: Come Watch Us Argue Over Gay People
Forget I Am Episcopalian. The Episcopal Church has a new marketing slogan: “Come watch us argue over gay people.” OK, not really. But wouldn’t it be funny? I came across this ...
Growing Church Poll Results
It’s a point of curiosity for us to know about our readers’ churches. It helps us get a better picture of what to cover and how to cover it. So ...
Web Usability and Donations
Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen recently wrote an article entitled Donation Usability: Increasing Online Giving to Non-Profits and Charities. In it, he discusses the virtues of creating a usable online ...