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Archive for the ‘Evangelism & Outreach’ Category
Fall Church Shopping
USA Today seems to feel that autumn is the perfect time to find a new church. I guess when we asked you what would make you leave your church, ...
The Free Gift of God is … iPhones and Disneyland Trips?
The free gift of God is an iPhone and a trip to Disneyland. OK, so that’s not the whole story. We’ve talked here before about churches partnering with local business. Perhaps it ...
Batterson on Marketing
Mark Batterson, a CMS favorite and annual interviewee, had a little to say about marketing last week in his Evotional blog. He said a few things I wanted to point ...
Building A Network
Call it church marketing if you want, but Southeast Christian in Louisville, Ky. (my own church) is taking a unique approach to reaching the community. Kyle Idleman has taken a three-part ...
Embracing Online Video
According to comScore, 75% of Internet users watched online video in May 2007, averaging 158 minutes per viewer. Nearly 8.4 billion videos were streamed online in the month of May. ...
Grow Your Church By Asking People to Leave
Craig Groeschel at LifeChurch.tv has an interesting series of blog posts on getting people to leave your church. It seems completely counter-intuitive, but it makes sense. If people aren’t moving ...
Gee, I Should Go To Church Today
It’s time to go back to the basics. I don’t know any non-Christian who wakes up and thinks, “Gee, I should go to church today.” Churches need to find ways to ...
Christians vs. Atheists on Nightline
Grab the popcorn and call your friends–ABC’s Nightline is staging a smackdown confrontation with eternal consequences. It’s a debate between Christians and atheists. In the atheists’ corner we have Brian ...
Rate a Church
Just stumbled across the unique and somewhat tongue-in-cheek site ChurchRater from Off the Map (the guys who bought an atheist on eBay). It’s exactly what it sounds like, a site ...
What Makes a Church Grow?
Wanting your church to grow isn’t enough. You have to take intentional action to make it happen. (Disclaimer: Yes, God makes it grow, not us. But God uses us to ...
Taking Outreach Lessons From Denny’s
I love what Denny’s restaurant is doing to try and attract the college crowd, via Nation’s Restaurant News (subscription required): Denny’s plan is to become a “social gathering” place for students ...
Church For Men
Most of you have heard the debate that church doesn’t speak the language of men, that the church with its tears and emotion doesn’t cater to men. There have been ...
How To Achieve 277% Growth
OK, so the title isn’t fully accurate. But it is how one church did it. Eastpoint Community Church in Middletown, Del. had an incredibly simple, strategic and successful marketing campaign, ...
Andy Crouch on Culture
Andy Crouch of The Christian Vision Project was recently interviewed on the Catalyst podcast. He made some interesting points which I’ll summarize for our loyal CMS readers. Essentially, Andy presents ...
Where’s the Church’s Ask a Ninja?
Online entertainment has been taking the world by storm. Homestar Runner. Ask a Ninja. lonelygirl15. ZeFrank. For the most part these were projects started by small groups of people with ...
