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Quantity is Job 1
This is part eight in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? Quantity is Job 1. That’s the title of one of my favorite albums from the now-defunct ...
Why Churches Should Care About Numbers
This is part seven in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? Numbers are important because they are a sign of effectiveness (notice I said a sign, not ...
The Purpose-Driven Church
I’ve had The Purpose-Driven Church sitting on my shelf for almost two years. It’s one of those books that you should eventually read for a site like this, but I ...
Numbers are People, Not Evil
This is part six in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? “A church that has no interest at all in increasing its number of converts is, in ...
The Events Lab
The Center for Church Communication, our non-profit parent organization, just launched a new resource: The Events Lab. It’s a Google-powered public calendar listing church marketing and communications related events. This week ...
It’s Not Always Numerical Growth
This is part five in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? I think numerical church growth can also be an idealized state, the place we want to ...
Stock Photography Poll
In response to some heated debate on our post Stock Photography Sucks, we asked how many churches use stock photography. The results varied, with 6% using only original and 23% ...
Church Marketing Lab Round Up #11
It’s been a busy week in the Church Marketing Lab, our community to share your work and offer feedback to others. So dive in and give your suggestions. Amped – t-shirt ...
Healing, Sick and Dying Churches
This is part four in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? So if a church isn’t growing, what’s happening? Rick Warren says it’s dying, that it’s diseased. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...