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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.
Free Miracle Cloth
Here at Church Marketing Sucks, we are often criticized for feeding the capitalistic free-market economy mindset that says if you advertise, promote, or market something well, people will come and ...
Church Marketing Lab Lightning Round
A lot has happened in the lab since the last update. We have nearly 600 members and more than 1100 images that people have been critiquing and learning from. ...
Top 10 Most Commented Entries of 2006
It’s the end of the year and time for lists galore. So we present the top 10 most commented entries of 2006. Of course we’re ignoring the old Peer Review ...
Rappin’ Pastors, Renamin’ Churches, Sharin’ Graphics
Rapping Pastors – When we did our Christmas marketing poll we forgot all about full-on rap videos. I bet that would have beaten out extra services. Who wants extra church ...
Advertise on CMS
You may have noticed the big new graphic on the right. That’s right, we’re now accepting advertising on Church Marketing Sucks and the Center for Church Communication. It’s part of ...
First Baptist Church Becomes CenterPoint Church
Over at the Out of Ur blog Gordon MacDonald writes about the recent name change his 180-year-old church went through. It took two votes to change the name and an ...
Dear Pastor College Student Essay Contest
Hey college students, Outreach magazine and Kyros Entertainment are teaming up to offer a essay contest. It’s a chance to tell pastors why churches are missing the boat when it ...
Your Church, sponsored by Crest White Strips
Wharton’s online business journal, Knowledge@Wharton did an article last month about the increasing amount of products and services being marketed in partnership with churches. From test driving SUVs during a ...
Manliness, Names & Parody
Manliness is Next to Godliness – “It’s the wuss-ification of America that’s getting us!” Churches Drop ‘Baptist’ Tag – “People tend to think of Baptists as very narrow-minded, sometimes mean-spirited and ...
Church Vandals Score Xbox
Here’s an odd little story: Three teenagers break into South Hills Evangelical Church in Missoula, Mont., steal money and smash windows and computers causing several thousand dollars in damage. In ...
Last Day to Order CMS T-Shirts
This is it. Today is your last day to order Church Marketing Sucks T-shirts. After today the store will close and you’ll be out of luck. So scrape your pennies ...
Church Protest Called Off: Lessons in Public Relations
So Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, narrowly avoided a protest yesterday from the People Against Fundamentalism. I won’t get into all the gory details (sorry, poor ...
Church Restaurant, Multi-Site, Entertainment
Church: Restaurant or Cooking Show? – Someone who hasn’t been to church in months went and then compared it to a cooking show where you don’t get to participate or ...
Lessons Learned from Skipping Church
Pastor Gary Lamb of Ridge Stone Church in Georgia recently took a Sunday off (gasp!) and blogged about lessons learned from NOT attending church. Some of the best lessons have to ...
CMS on Creative Synergy Podcast
If we haven’t mentioned the new Creative Synergy Podcast before, it’s worth checking out. Hosted by Greg Atkinson and Anthony Coppedge, they cover all kinds of creative issues for the ...
