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Archive for the ‘Evangelism & Outreach’ Category
Pooling Talents to Multiply Talents
Many of you are familiar with the parable of the talents. Essentially God entrusts us with things, and we diligently care for and use those things. Maybe it’s a knack ...
Bridge to Bikers, the Homeless and Prison Alumni
I was in Fort Wayne, Ind., this past weekend for a site survey and setup trip for an upcoming Foursquare simulcast later this fall. It’s always a treat for me ...
Like A Good Neighbor…
One church is having a problem. Outreach magazine looks at a growing church who can’t get permission from their city to move to a bigger location. Why, you ask? Well, ...
The Big Summer Push
This week’s poll asks you, how does your church adjust its marketing efforts for summer? Why do we ask that? Well, it seems tons of churches just kind of chill ...
Share the Gospel in 140 Characters or Less
When you talk about marketing it’s easy to focus on design. But writing matters. A lot. Here’s a chance to sharpen your writing skills. Brian Baute has thrown down the ...
Community Organizing vs. Community Building
I mentioned last week about the conversation my wife and I are a part of with a handful of churches in Northeast Los Angeles discussing issues of poverty, homelessness, education, ...
What To Do When Someone Steals Your Church
Kinetic Church got in touch with us to tell us a story about themselves, which you may or may not have heard about. One weekend in early March, our portable church ...
Churches as a Media Platform
Veggie Tales founder Phil Vischer has been blogging about his big dreams for his new company, Jellyfish (if you’re not familiar with Vischer’s departure from Big Idea, you should read ...
Erwin McManus Touches (Lightly) on Church Marketing
Erwin McManus has his thoughts about why churches are in decline. And it’s not bad design, bad web sites or poor use of technology. “My primary assessment would be because ...
Lent as the Christian Ramadan
We’re playing telephone today: we got a link from the Cheapertising blog who highlighted the Get Religion blog who covered a story from the Telegraph. It takes a timely look ...
NFL Gives in to Churches
Woohoo! Victory! Reports are surfacing (via my investigative reporting of the espn.com main page) that the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is giving up the fight against religious organizations holding live showings ...
The NFL vs. Church
I guess tomorrow there’s some big game–the Super Bowl or something. They’re talking about it in the Church Marketing Lab and churches across the country are having parties–though perhaps warily. Last ...
Underpromise and Overdeliver
Seth Godin, one of our favorite marketing gurus, had some good advice recently. Underpromise and overdeliver. This is a little different but particularly pertinent for the church. We can’t overpromise. We ...
Christmas is Broken
Now that the Christmas season is over (unless you celebrate the 12 days of Christmas, in which case keep on rockin’!) I think it’s fair to say that Christmas is ...
Marketing Via Christmas Carolers
I love Christmas carols. Every year it seems like the words become more and more meaningful to me. It’s amazing how much the gospel is sung in these songs! So why ...
