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The Come Back Effect: How Hospitality Can Compel Your Church’s Guests to Return by Jason Young & Jonathan Malm

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?

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Stand-Up Comic Helps UK Clergy
February 28, 2007

Stand-Up Comic Helps UK Clergy

Comedian Andy Kind is offering help to British clergy with a workshop that focuses on performance skills in an effort to help them better communicate with their congregations. “Christianity is not ...

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Megachurches are Desegregating Sunday Mornings
February 28, 2007

Megachurches are Desegregating Sunday Mornings

You can deride megachurches all you want, but new research shows that they’re more racially diverse, finally beginning to overturn the assertion that Sunday morning is the most segregated hour ...

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They Didn’t Teach Marketing In Seminary
February 27, 2007

They Didn’t Teach Marketing In Seminary

Rev. Matthew Moretz laments that they didn’t teach him marketing in seminary, despite the fact that he does more print jobs than sermons. But considering the success of his Father ...

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Innovative Churches: Does Size Matter?
February 27, 2007

Innovative Churches: Does Size Matter?

Part 9 in a series on Innovative Churches. Be sure to contribute to the Most Innovative Churches list. Does size matter? What about smaller churches and those with limited financial resources? ...

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10 [Cheap] Ad Ideas from Roy H. Williams
February 26, 2007

10 [Cheap] Ad Ideas from Roy H. Williams

If you’re not already getting the Monday Morning Memo from adman Roy H. Williams, you’re missing out. Not only is Williams a brilliant pithy writer, he’s got one of the ...

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Amarillo Church Wins Addy Award
February 26, 2007

Amarillo Church Wins Addy Award

An Amarillo, Texas church snagged a best in show (registration requried) at the Addy Awards for the second year in a row. Trinity Fellowship Church won the local division of ...

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Innovative Churches: Community
February 22, 2007

Innovative Churches: Community

Part 8 in a series on Innovative Churches. Be sure to contribute to the Most Innovative Churches list. How are innovative churches trying to engage and impact their communities outside the ...

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Marketing to Agnostics and Not Atheists
February 21, 2007

Marketing to Agnostics and Not Atheists

I was giving a demo about online church communities at the Community Next Conference recently. I opened with a comparison of churches and schools–namely, that there are more Christian churches ...

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Churches Should Not <i>Just</i> Do What Works
February 19, 2007

Churches Should Not Just Do What Works

Last week Kevin wrote an entry about something Craig Groeschel of LifeChurch.tv said regarding sticking to what works. While I appreciate the intentionality of getting rid of unnecessary activity, there ...

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Churches Should Do What Works
February 15, 2007

Churches Should Do What Works

LifeChurch.tv’s Craig Groeschel talks about cutting back church ministries. What?! No VBS? No choir? No women’s ministry? (gasp) I love his simple and calm reasoning that churches should do what works ...

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Testimony Billboards
February 15, 2007

Testimony Billboards

The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports on a church billboard campaign that’s personal. Love this quote: “Marketing and evangelism are the same thing,” says Mara Einstein, associate professor of media studies at the ...

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Stopping the Comment Spam
February 14, 2007

Stopping the Comment Spam

We’ve instituted a new measure to fight comment spam. When you post a comment you’ll be asked to type a word to verify that you’re a real person commenting and ...

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Church Marketing Lessons from PETA
February 13, 2007

Church Marketing Lessons from PETA

So today I stumbled across this little pornographic video from PETA and blogged about it on my personal site. Don’t worry, I’m linking to my blog post and not the ...

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Innovative Churches: Technology
February 12, 2007

Innovative Churches: Technology

Part 7 in a series on Innovative Churches. Be sure to contribute to the Most Innovative Churches list. How will technology, including the use of media and the web, influence churches ...

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Don’t Cause Unnecessary Offense
February 9, 2007

Don’t Cause Unnecessary Offense

Yesterday I tried to talk about some ways to avoid and address criticism and in the end I was debating with myself about whether or not we should care about ...

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