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Archive for the ‘First Impressions & Beyond’ Category
Jesus Billboard is an Eyesore
This is fun: A Minnesota newspaper does a story about the city cracking down on “eyesores” and the accompanying front-page photo features a billboard for a local church with “Jesus” ...
A Visitor’s Perspective: Looking Back
Many of you were with us through our entire series on Church From a Visitor’s Perspective. Others of you haven’t checked it out yet. For those of you who missed ...
A Visitor’s Perspective: The Strangers Among Us
This is part 9 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...
A Visitor’s Perspective: A Visit from the Mystery Worshipper
This is part 8 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...
A Visitor’s Perspective: One is the Loneliest Number
This is part 7 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...
A Visitor’s Perspective: I Must Be in the Front Row!
This is part 6 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...
A Visitor’s Perspective: Verbose Nomenclature
This is part 5 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...
What if Church was Fast, Fun & Friendly?
Brenton Balvin recently went to work for Target and noted that Target strives to be a ‘fast, fun and friendly place to work and shop’ and maybe churches need to ...
A Visitor’s Perspective: Watch your Language!
This is part 4 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...
A Visitor’s Perspective: The Welcoming Paradox
This is part 3 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post here to get a better understanding of David’s experience ...
A Visitor’s Perspective: An Embarrassing Problem
This is part 2 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. You can read the original post to get a better understanding of David’s experience visiting ...
Church from a Visitor’s Perspective
This is part 1 of a 9-part series on attending church from a visitor’s perspective. Here’s a little of my back-story: I was a church planter for a number of years, ...
Skipping Summer Sundays?
An interesting story came to me via Slice of Laodicea about how one church handles their summer services. For June, July and August, the San Francisco Journey moved to a once-monthly ...
Contagious Joy, Use It
“When hundreds of you come flooding out of the church after services every weekend, your heads are high, your shoulders are back and your enthusiasm is obvious. Take that same ...
8 (Or So) Questions About Your Church Signage
When I was 10 years old there was a song by Tesla that was rocking the airwaves called “Signs.” All my friends and I loved the song. You ...
