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Archive for the ‘Philosophy’ Category
Do It Yourself Church Marketing
Ah. You gotta love this cartoon from CartoonChurch.com. Right on the money. If you haven’t been to Cartoon Church (we’ve plugged it before) you should check it out. They’ve got great ...
Priest Idol: Church as Reality TV
A dying church in a small British town. A young American priest. A mission to revitalize a congregation of less than ten. It doesn’t exactly sound like the basis for ...
No Sunday Service, Sports Instead
It appears New Zealand is still adjusting to all the attention that came with its Lord of the Rings fame. Whether or not the beloved Kiwis are seeking more attention ...
Church Growth Fallout
Mark Oestreicher from Youth Specialties has an interesting post using a Raymond Chandler quote to talk about the state of the church: From thirty feet away she looked like a lot ...
Church Marketing is Not Easy
Churches are terrible at communicating. We know that. But I find a small measure of comfort in the fact that we’re dealing with a difficult message. God is amazing and mysterious ...
Making Sense Without Sense
While on the treadmill the other day at my local gym, a TV in the distance captivated me. I usually don’t care to watch the “devil box” (as my mother ...
Many Ways of Doing Church
You know what I love about the church? There’s no one right way of doing it. No where in the Bible do we find an order of service telling us ...
Real Live Preacher on Church Marketing
Real Live Preacher, the quasi-famous blogging pastor who recently published his first book, RealLivePreacher.com, ranted about church marketing recently. He complains about both churches doing marketing and businesses that market ...
The Message Drives the Marketing
A recent article touts the high demand of marketing skills in church leaders, but unfortunately the article doesn’t entirely get it. On several fronts. Civil Rights and MarketingThe article quotes a ...
The $88 Billion Church
The 350,000 churches, synagogues and mosques in the U.S. raked in an estimated $88.3 billion last year. That’s a lot of money. That makes religion a bigger business than say, ...
Mega Churches: Act of God or Marketing?
A recent article looks at mega churches and asks why they’re growing. Is it God, as most of the churches would say, or is it marketing, like the academics say? ...
Marketing without Marketing
I came across this interview with David A. Anderson, Senior Pastor of Bridgeway Community Church in Columbia, Md., in Church Executive magazine in an article focusing on racial unity. This ...
Telling Stories
It’s no secret that Jesus’ use of parables in the New Testament continues to draw parallels to present day story telling. Using the arts—theater, photography, movies, books, and more—generation after ...
Barna’s State of the Church
The Next-Wave online magazine has an interesting article on George Barna’s State of the Church 2005. The piece dives into Barna’s latest findings about the church, compares them with his ...
Churches are like a Velvet Elvis
The Detroit Free Press profiled Rob Bell, pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grandville, Mich. and his upcoming book, Velvet Elvis, came up as a metaphor for out of ...
