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Archive for January 2007
Innovative Churches: Obstacles & Dangers
Part 5 in a series on Innovative Churches. Be sure to contribute to the Most Innovative Churches list. Here are more of the Q&As from the Outreach/Tony Morgan questionnaire: What are the ...
Innovative Church Poll
To go along with our Innovative Church series we opted to do a little poll to find out how innovative your church is. The results are not that encouraging. The majority ...
National New Church Conference
In April I will be tag-teaming with the one and only Mark Batterson for a pre-conference session at the National New Church Conference in Orlando, Fla. The pre-conference track is ...
Innovative Churches: Opportunities & Influence
Part 4 in a series on Innovative Churches. Be sure to contribute to the Most Innovative Churches list. Here’s the continuing Q&As from the Outreach/Tony Morgan questionnaire: What’s happening outside the church ...
First Impressions: Presentation vs. Promotion
A friend from church has been sporadically carrying on a conversation with me about first impressions. He knows that I am a big first impressions guy and he positions himself ...
Cool Ideas Poll
Last week we asked about cool church promotional ideas, and while Chipotle is always tasty, nothing beats simply walking the walk. It’s hardly a promotional idea so it’s kind of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
Church Tie in Poll
Last week we asked about the controversial issue of churches partnering with outside organizations. Brad started it with his post about church partnerships and then followed up with the example ...
