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The Multi-Site Church Revolution
Monday, May 22nd, 2006 by Kevin D. HendricksThe brick and mortar church building on the corner is not a concept you’ll find in the Bible—and the concept’s days may be numbered. Or at least no longer ubiquitous. The physical church building has more than a few limitations, including interior space, room for exterior expansion, financial burdens, and the backwards idea of church as a physical building instead…
Church Franchising Gone Amuck
Friday, March 3rd, 2006 by Kevin D. HendricksAnd while we’re doing satire, how about some more from Lark News: For 12 years Evergreen Christian Center was just another mega-church in Tennessee. Then the church radically changed its ministry approach. It began franchising itself. … In 2001 Evergreen began gobbling up churches across the nation and turning them into Evergreen clones, with identical features, down to the doorknobs,…
Corporate Sponsorship for Churches
Friday, March 3rd, 2006 by Kevin D. HendricksPut your pitchforks down, it’s just a spoof from a Lark News article, “Corporate Sponsorship a Boon to Church Budgets”: “This [offer] couldn’t have come at a better time,” says Jacob Helsinki, pastor of Mach 4 Baptist Church in Lemon Grove, Wash. His church has sold much of the “visual space” in their facility to advertisers, including the bathroom stalls…
How Churches Use Technology
Monday, February 27th, 2006 by Kevin D. HendricksLast week I spoke with Jesse Noyes from the Boston Herald about how churches use technology for his article, “Lord Works in High Tech Ways,” which basically explores how churches are using emerging technology like blogs and podcasts. Church Marketing Sucks and our parent Center for Church Communication get a mention, though I didn’t say anything smart enough to get…
Church Giveaways Poll
Monday, February 13th, 2006 by Kevin D. HendricksLast week we had a fun poll about church giveaways, asking how to up the ante beyond houses, Harleys and Hummers to some really cool giveaways. And it’s a tie: 15-minute sermons and dibs on the fried chicken shared the top spot with 29%. A prime parking spot was next with 23% and season tickets to the front pew was…
The Emergent Church on Nightline
Monday, January 16th, 2006 by Kevin D. HendricksABC’s Nightline took a look at the emergent church recently during their “Faith Matters” series, visiting several churches in my own backyard. One of those churches, Bluer, has the entire segment online. I’m never eager to debate the whole emergent thing, but a couple comments in the segment jumped out for their marketing implications: “I look at us as an…
Podcasting Packs the Pews
Thursday, January 5th, 2006 by Kevin D. HendricksWho would have thought that broadcasting your sermons so people don’t have to actually come to your church would instead make more people come to your church? Steve Evans of Bridge Chapel Christian church in Liverpool says podcasts work: “Large numbers of new people are coming down to the church and joining our congregation simply because of the internet downloads…
More on Mega-Churches
Friday, November 4th, 2005 by Kevin D. HendricksAh, yet another article on mega-churches, this time from Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine (that’s where I live!). The Twin Cities are actually a breeding ground for mega-churches. According to the article we have 26 mega-churches, and Minnesota has six of the nation’s seven ELCA mega-churches, and Minneapolis is home to the largest Lutheran congregation in the world (though I don’t know…
Pat Robertson Assassinates Jesus
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005 by Kevin D. HendricksAs you can expect, the news channels are swarmed with chatter over the latest stupid thing Pat Robertson has said: The U.S. should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (watch the 700 Club video). Stupid comments like this and thousands of others do real damage to the cause of Christianity. Why does anybody even listen to this guy? The headlines today…
The Relevant Church
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005 by Kevin D. HendricksThe twentysomethings hipster publisher Relevant brings us The Relevant Church, a look at 15 different churches across the country that are definitely not the parish next door. Written by a leader from each congrgation, these are churches that don’t like to be called churches. They meet in bars and coffee shops and spin records and ride skateboards. They’re interested in…
