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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.
Thank you. Keep telling the greatest story ever told.
100 Ways To Kill A Concept
Michael Iva writes an interesting PDF on the death of an idea. I don’t think it will change your life dramatically, but I do think it’s worth a quick read. ...
Where We’re Missing
I was reading my good friends (I’ve never met them, but it sounds better, and I like them) over at Church Relevance, and they posted some interesting statistics from the ...
Growing, Buzzing Churches: Save $70
I’m not quite sure when I first drank of it, but the Mark Batterson Kool-Aid is still having an affect on me. I met Mark in the flesh at last ...
The Anti-Welcoming Church
No matter how welcoming churches think they are, they usually aren’t. Why does it have to be so hard to find and connect with a church? I don’t know, but ...
Church Doesn’t Suck Billboard
Apparently it’s church billboard week. First it was “Satan “ in the copy, and now it’s “Sucks.” GracePoint Church in Wichita, Kan. has launched a billboard campaign that’s drawing criticism, ...
Yahoo! Real Estate and The Church
Yahoo! Real Estate’s new tool, Neighborhood Profile, provides an interesting tool for an often overlooked necessity in the church–cross-cultural ministry. The tool lists factors such as average income, average family ...
Satan Hates Life
Lifechurch.tv launched a new billboard campaign recently that’s pretty creative. I’ve seen billboards for churches before and I’ve liked, well, none of them. This might change my mind. The time ...
Parade of Churches
Emergent Village is coordinating the Twin Cities Parade of Churches. It’s mostly focusing on those wacky emergent churches, but what a great idea to get people together to experience, discuss ...
Church Staff Split Over ‘Sucks’
Oh, LarkNews, a site after my own heart. You know our pain and you let us chuckle together: Staff Split Over ‘Sucks’ (link via Mike Atkinson)…
Churches Talk About Sex (Gasp!)
That incredibly illicit image of two pairs of naked feet hanging off the edge of a bed from Granger Community Church’s My Lame Sex Life campaign is getting around. Lately ...
End of the Series on Innovative Churches
Today we’ve officially wrapped up our series on Innovative Churches, featuring the Squidoo-powered and user-submitted list of innovative churches (currently at 65 churches) and our own Brad Abare’s responses to ...
Innovative Churches: Measures & the Future
Part 10 in a series on Innovative Churches. Be sure to contribute to the Most Innovative Churches list. How will we know if innovation is working? How should we measure the ...
Cute, Clever and Cool
One of my daily blog reads is Signal vs. Noise from the folks behind 37signals. Not only do I use a few of their products (personally and professionally), I really ...
Presentation Matters
Relevant has an interesting online article on The Commercial Church. It argues for pretty much the opposite of what we say here, but I always find these articles interesting and ...
Battling Frumpiness in the Pulpit
She could have called the site Church Fashion Sucks. But Beauty Tips for Ministers works, too. Victoria Weinstein, a Unitarian Universalist minister who goes by the handle PeaceBang, launched the ...
