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The Come Back Effect: How Hospitality Can Compel Your Church’s Guests to Return by Jason Young & Jonathan Malm
In The Comeback Effect, we are asked to think about the connections we make with guests through their experiences. What exactly is hospitality? How do we practice it intentionally? And why is this so important for church growth?
December 17, 2019
Time to Dream It All up Again
We’re taking a break to go away and dream it all up again. But the archives are here and we've got other helpful initiatives.
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September 13: Back to Church Sunday
We thought new years, Easter, the first Sunday of fall and Christmas Eve were the best times to invite a friend. Did you know that September 13th is Back-to-Church Sunday? ...
Giving Prayers to Those in Need
One church in Michigan is skipping the giveaways, glitz and glamour. The LA Times tells the story of a church in a Michigan town, hit hard by the recession. They ...
Story: Oct. 28-29 Near Chicago
Last week I received a very nice package from Ben Arment, the lead brain behind Story. It looks like Carlos Whittaker received a similar package–watch Los open it, he looks ...
How Does Your Church Play Nice?
I saw this over the weekend from a church in Eagle Rock, Calif., about eight miles outside of downtown Los Angeles. Christian Assembly has been in Eagle Rock for decades ...
A Man Has Needs.
In my opinion the demographic that is ignored the most, or at least not considered as much in the what and how of church, is men. We say we want ...
The Future of Church
Today I stumbled across a Collide magazine article from last month that pondered the future of the church in 2034. It’s a lengthy piece that imagines what church may be ...
Echo, God As Second Banana
“Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.” —Neil Postman The second annual Echo Church Media Conference ...
Keeping Online Conversations Clean
Many of your churches have Facebook fan pages, Twitter feeds, Internet campuses, live chat abilities, Internet-capable computers on-site and a thousand other whizz bangs and gadgets. With all of these things, ...
Thanks, Sponsors!
We’d like to take a quick break from our regularly-scheduled spoon-fed church marketing knowledge to thank the companies who sponsor us at Church Marketing Sucks. We’re not simply acting as ...
Selling Your Church for Your People
We’ve got this church building, worth a shade over a million dollars, and it’s almost completely paid off. For many churches, this would be time to start dreaming of stuffing the ...
More Church Traffic Jams
National Community Church pastor Mark Batterson visited Woodlands Church in Texas this weekend and shared this perspective: “When I got to Woodlands Church I couldn’t believe how many cars were in ...
Church Marketing Lab: Logos, Slides and Beyond
Another great week has come and gone in the Church Marketing Lab. People are coming up with team names, re-emerging in creative work after child bearing and finding churches in ...
Church Communications Strategy Coaching Network
Communications Director Kem Meyer is launching a new coaching network this fall for those involved in church communication. That could be a pastor, a creative or anyone else involved in ...
Five-Year Anniversary
On July 22, 2004 the first Church Marketing Sucks post appeared. It’s hard to believe we’ve been at this for five years. In Internet terms that makes us a dinosaur. ...
Preaching Zen
We’ve had a lot of comments on last week’s post about John Piper’s thoughts on video and mass media in sermons. Short recap: Piper doesn’t like them. You can read all ...
