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Sunday Morning Dress Code
The Ann Arbor News has a balanced article about the casual trend in church attire. The piece includes both the pragmatic and anti-legalism pro that God cares more about the ...
If You Don’t Build It, They Will Come
Isaiah Church has no building, but that’s okay. Rev. Troy Benton plans to build his church by forming a congregation first, and worrying about a building later. It’s a common ...
Money Grubbing
Stewardship has to be one of the touchiest subjects in the church. Until churches start charging a cover and collecting it at the door, offerings and pledge drives are a ...
It’s the End of the Church As We Know It
A couple interesting tidbits from Will Samson, who just spent two days hanging out with George Barna and Leonard Sweet talking about the future of the church: “Currently only 65% of ...
Making Sense of Church
Spencer Burke, creator of the TheOoze.com, wrote Making Sense of Church, a book that dives into a lot of the post-modern/emergent conversations about the church. While the book is more ...
Church Shopping
Fall is back to school time, but it’s also back to church time, according to an article in The Christian Science Monitor, as more people tend to return to church ...
Business Ventures as Church Advertising
Starting businesses, providing jobs, and generating an economic turn around for a depressed area of Portland: It’s advertising without advertising. “People have lost faith in the church because the church isn’t ...
E-mail and the Youth Pastor
Youth Specialties offers some advice for how youth workers can make the most of e-mail. The basic lesson is e-mail won’t replace mailings or phone calls as the communication vehicle ...
Old and Boring with a Big Future
I just spent the last hour on a conference call with a development team I am a part of for a ministry organization that has been around over 125 ...
One Church – One Commercial
Texas blogger Rob Stewart writes: “The McDonald’s at 50th St. and Quaker Ave. doesn’t have its own commercial separate from commercials for the McDonald’s at 19th and University. There’s an ad ...
Unmarketing the Church
Texas blogger Rob Stewart mentioned us in a recent post, noting that we take issue with marketing the church. While I love the post, I did want to point out ...
Apathy in the Pew
Doug Tappan doesn’t like church anymore, and said as much in his recent editorial: “I’ve come to expect the church to forge my spiritual development. Instead of working on my own ...
Bono: No Respectability for the Church
Bono, the lead singer of U2 and the patron saint of culturally aware Christians, has made his views on AIDS and the church clear. He hates the idea of the ...
Mike Atkinson: Poor Church Web Sites Can Be Costly
Mike Atkinson, former web guru for Youth Specialties, talks about church web sites in an interview with Good News, etc., a San Diego Christian newspaper (which could use some web ...
E-mail 101
I wish it weren’t so, but churches (and the general population) are rookies when it comes to e-mail. Goofy forwards, typing in all caps, and the biggest e-mail sin of ...
Is Marketing a Dirty Word?
Marketing gets a bad rap. With telemarketers, pushy sales people, and lousy marketing tactics it’s no wonder people bristle at the word. But the concept itself isn’t the problem. Marketing ...
Heal Your Church Web Site
A blog covering church web sites, just one more reason why there’s no excuse for having a sucky site. (link via Knightopia) Though they happen, don’t they? One reason may be ...