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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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Innovative Churches: Ingredients
January 24, 2007

Innovative Churches: Ingredients

Part 3 in a series on Innovative Churches. Be sure to contribute to the Most Innovative Churches list. Here’s the next Q&A from the Outreach/Tony Morgan questionnaire: What does innovation look like ...

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Innovative Churches: Definition & Is It Biblical?
January 22, 2007

Innovative Churches: Definition & Is It Biblical?

Part 2 in a series on Innovative Churches. Be sure to contribute to the Most Innovative Churches list. As a part of Outreach‘s Most Innovative Churches list, I answered a questionnaire ...

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The Most Innovative Churches
January 19, 2007

The Most Innovative Churches

Part 1 in a series on Innovative Churches Outreach magazine recently released a list of America’s most innovative churches. Outreach magazine and Simply Strategic guy Tony Morgan came up with the ...

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NRB’s Reach 2007 Conference
January 18, 2007

NRB’s Reach 2007 Conference

Our very own Brad Abare will be speaking at the NRB’s 2007 Reach Conference next month in Orlando, Fla. The conference is February 17-19 and Brad will be headlining the ...

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Salt-Seasoning for a Full House
January 18, 2007

Salt-Seasoning for a Full House

When our success at communicating is measured against the contemporary, creative, and controversial, we’re missing it. Like a dieter eating Milk Duds on a treadmill, we must not forget why ...

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Church Walls as Billboards: Your Ad Here
January 18, 2007

Church Walls as Billboards: Your Ad Here

“Your Ad Here” and “Your Corporate Logo Here” displayed alternately for two and a half hours on the side of the Cathedral of our Lady of Angels in Los Angeles, ...

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Top 59 Smartest Organizations Online
January 16, 2007

Top 59 Smartest Organizations Online

Our non-profit parent, the Center for Church Communication, was just named one of the Top 59 Smartest Organizations Online. You can read more about it at the CFCC blog. Whoa. We’re ...

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Beautiful Basics
January 16, 2007

Beautiful Basics

Everybody’s been talking about the amazing new iPhone this past week. As you can imagine, it holds a few lessons for the church. But first comes 37signals’ prediction for the iPhone, ...

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Top 5 Must-Read Blogs for Fundraisers
January 15, 2007

Top 5 Must-Read Blogs for Fundraisers

It seems we’re one of the top five must-read blogs for fundraisers. Jeff Brooks, author of the Donor Power Blog and creative director at the ad agency Merkle/Domain, offered up ...

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MLK Day On, Not Off
January 15, 2007

MLK Day On, Not Off

Following up my post post from earlier this week about how more churches should be making a bigger deal about MLK day, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that many ...

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Church Staff Free Agents
January 12, 2007

Church Staff Free Agents

Ooh, ooh, did you hear the news? Forget about that Beckham guy, Tony Morgan, former pastor at Granger Community Church in Granger, Ind. and one of the Simply Strategic guys ...

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Outreach’s Top 20 Web Sites for Church Communicators
January 11, 2007

Outreach’s Top 20 Web Sites for Church Communicators

In my haste to dump some links on you yesterday I forgot one: Top 20 Web Sites for Church Communicators. It’s a web exclusive from Outreach magazine written by, oh ...

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Post-Holiday Linkfest
January 10, 2007

Post-Holiday Linkfest

My post-holiday recovery never quite happened, thanks to the fact that my family is trying to sell our house. So I’ve got a pile of links I haven’t had time ...

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Irrelevant Social Clubs: Martin Luther King Jr. on the Church
January 9, 2007

Irrelevant Social Clubs: Martin Luther King Jr. on the Church

This coming Monday in the United States, we will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It’s a federal holiday and, as of the year 2000, every state recognizes it. Established ...

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Chipotle and Crossings Church
January 3, 2007

Chipotle and Crossings Church

Last month I wrote an entry about potential partnerships that might exist between companies and churches. Not surprising, it sparked several heated comments. I am working on a follow up ...

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