A new Viral Video is going around that could lead to some good discussion with your youth.

Have you heard about Ben Breedlove? Breedlove created the popular OurAdvice4You channel on YouTube in November 2010. He would give out relationship advice to his viewers and interview family members and friends. On May 23, 2011, he launched his second channel, BreedloveTV, a companion channel to his first, where he would answer questions about dating, relationships and advice.

As of 29 December 2011 OurAdvice4You has a total of 38 videos, and nearly 60,000 subscribers, and BreedloveTV has 17 videos and almost 20,000 subscribers.

A third channel was created by Breedlove on December 18, 2011, entitled TotalRandomness512. This channel is the host of the two-part video, “This is my story“, which has since become viral.

If you haven’t wathced thses videos, they are touching. Sadly Ben died on Christmas 2011 a week after his last video.

This is My Story Ben Breedlove is a post from: Grow Your Church Show

Big Churches Getting Bigger – Free eBook is a post from: Grow Your Church Show

I was unaware that May 15th is Internet Evangelsim Day. In honor of this day, a bunch of ebooks (and some for Kindle) are availabel for download. Some are available Month, and some are only available on May 15th (so mark your calendar). You can find them at http://www.internetevangelismday.com/free-christian-ebook-downloads.php

Free Evangelism eBooks is a post from: Grow Your Church Show

A new report from the barna group is out talking about “What Americans Believe About Universalism and Pluralism” it shows how many people think that “We’re all ok, and we are all saved.” The part of the report that shocked me was the Christian Persepctives. Here they are:

“Christians’ Perspectives
When looking at the Christian community, born again Christians were more likely to be interested in sharing their faith with others as well as more likely than average to say they desire active, healthy relationships with people of other faiths. [Born again Christians are defined by Barna Group as those who have made a commitment to Jesus Christ and who believe they are going to heaven because of their confession of sins and accepted Christ as their savior. It is not based upon self-identifying with the label “born again.”]

Nevertheless, despite their own personal faith convictions, many born again Christians embrace certain aspects of universalist thought. One-quarter of born again Christians said that all people are eventually saved or accepted by God (25%) and that it doesn’t matter what religious faith you follow because they all teach the same lessons (26%). An even larger percentage of born again Christians (40%) indicated that they believe Christians and Muslims worship the same God.”

To this I have one response:

John 14:6  ⁶ Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

There isn’t a lot of room for interpretation there…

Christian Confusion is a post from: Grow Your Church Show

I found a great article from Outreach magazine. That has a list of items you shold be doing to make sure Easter does not sneak up on you.

Encourage Invitation

•Step 1 – Ask church members to pray for 5 people to invite on Easter Sunday.
•Step 2 – Equip them with printed invitations and set up a Facebook event page so that they can easily pass-along the invite.
•Step 3 – After service, provide an element of fun. Host an after gathering—a church picnic, coffeehouse, or meet and greet.

Get the Word Out

•Door to Door: Walk the neighborhood with door hangers, or send a last-minute postcard to your target demographic.
•Banners & Signs: Hang a banner on church property or businesses around town. Provide yard signs to members.
•Media: Approach your local radio station, newspaper or news station with a press release for Easter events.
•Internet: Take out Facebook ads, create a Facebook event page, and post comments regarding Easter services to your Facebook and Twitter accounts. Take out a free ad on Craigslist. Try free Google Advertising.

Crash Someone Else’s Party

•Local Easter Festivities: If your city or mother’s club is hosting a big Easter egg hunt or parade, ask how your church might help. Host a booth, pass out Easter baskets and invites, or help stuff plastic eggs for the kids.
•Another church’s special event. Partner up with another area church already planning an event or gathering outdoors.

Clean House

•Church Building & Grounds: Provide a hospitable welcome. Clear debris, spring clean, and provide a welcoming and updated atmosphere.
•Church Website: Assess your website for design and functionality, and provide Easter specific information. Make sure you are listed on Google when someone searches for “church” alongside your city name.
•Accessibility: Provide easy parking for visitors, and directional signage.
•Information: Ensure your info center is current and relevant for visitors.

Not-So Random Acts of Kindness

•Photo Opp: Snap photos at the local Easter event. Provide free CDs to each family of the images, or pass out invites and cards indicating where people can view or purchase photos (try Shutterfly.com, SnapFish.com, Flickr.com, or a similar photo sharing service).
•Easter Basket Craft: Bring plain Easter baskets to a nearby retirement home, and spend time decorating them with the residents.
•Neighborhood Seder: Encourage members to host neighborhood Seder dinners, inviting unsaved neighbors and explaining the traditions behind the meal.
•Spring Cleaning: Enlist the youth group to clean yard debris, do odd-jobs, and plant gardens for shut-ins or families in need.
•Adopt an Easter Basket: Ask members to each donate a filled basket, and coordinate with a family shelter, school or food bank for distribution to families in need.
•Basket Invites: Suggest that members assemble custom Easter baskets for friends as an Easter invitation. Baskets might include a Bible, music CD, candy, gift cards, book, an invitation to Easter services, and other thoughtful items.

Comeback Events

•An Intriguing Series: Follow up Easter with a testimony series or other interesting sermon series.
•A Special Event: Host a family-fun park day, concert, beach bonfire, or buy out a day at the pool or bowling alley in the weeks following Easter.
•Ministry Events: Ask ministries to each plan a special event in the following month. Include them in Easter announcements.
•Open House & Orientation: Cast the vision for your church and various ministries, and provide an introduction to the faith.
•A Newcomers Class: Start a Bible study for new believers.
What is your church planning for Easter Sunday?

Easter Service Checklist is a post from: Grow Your Church Show

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You want to have a full church on Easter. You hope the “Chreasters” can make it this year. Well Easter is four weeks away (if not less) and in theory you should’ve already made plans, had posters printed, and be promoting your plan starting last Sunday. If you’re stuck, or have no budget, here is an idea.

Instead of thinking about getting hundreds of people into the church (which can be overwhelming), why not get your congregation to focus on one person per member. You can blow this up as big as you want, but the thought is the same. Don’t go for the grand slam, go for the base hit. Go for one.

Here are some ways to help promote this idea:

Have bracelets made (they are all the rave ya know) with the phrase ONE on them. Wearing these will remind people to ask their friends and family, and may be an ice breaker (What’s the bracelt about?).

Have a card made, or use a sheet of paper for people to fill our their one name and have them brind it forward at the end of the service. Have the pastor pray over the names, and continue each week to pray over the names. have the members keep a copy of the paper so they can remind themselves to PRAY for this ONE person.

Scripture: Luke 10:2
He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.” Remind them that just hoping people will show up is not enough. A farmer does not plant seeds and then HOPE that the crops end up in the storage silohs. He has to go HARVEST the crops. It’s time to harvest the lost. They need christ more than ever.

Getting People Into Church on Easter is a post from: Grow Your Church Show

[amazonify]0310245907[/amazonify]Here is another book that may help you to get inside the mind of the people you are trying to reach. Here is what one reviewer said at amazon.com

Everyone who takes the Christian faith seriously should read this book and be prepared to do some sober reflection. Whether a pastor, youth worker, elder, deacon, lay leader, or church member – those who take Dan Kimball’s book to heart may very well need to make some significant changes in their approach to outreach and evangelism.

In They Like Jesus But Not The Church, Dan Kimball first points out the convicting and humbling truth that the longer one is a Christian, the less likely one is to have significant friendships with those who are not Christian. Instead, most Christians today find their lives consumed with church-related activities – and those whose primary jobs are ministry-related are often the worst offenders. How can anyone know what the needs of the unchurched are unless they are involved in trusting relationships with them?

The church in America has become nearly irrelevant to most 20- and 30-somethings. Yet those who follow Jesus rarely venture outside our cozy Christian comfort zones to learn why. Unless individual Christians are actively engaged in open and trusting relationships with non-Christians (without a conversion agenda), the life-changing gospel message won’t effectively be spread merely by changing our worship service structure, format, or atmosphere. Furthermore, most Christians tend to compound the problem by generally taking one of two approaches to evangelism: either we see every non-Christian as a potential target, and if we spend any time with them at all the goal is to “seal the deal;” or we isolate our faith from our everyday lives and generally avoid faith- or church-related conversations with anyone other than our church friends.

One of the biggest strengths of this book are the voices of many people (most in their 20s and 30s) with whom Dan Kimball has spent hours in conversation. He has developed trusting relationships and most importantly has really listened to where they’re coming from when they talk about Jesus, the church, and Christians. Dan’s goal was not to convert them, but to hear them. And likely, in doing so, he began to remove some of the stereotypes about Christians and the church that they might have held.

It is surprising and refreshing to learn of the positive and often even accurate views many people outside the church have about Jesus. In general, they deeply respect him and his teachings. But they see the church as very un-Christlike, and the church must not ignore their perceptions and feelings. Whether or not their ideas about the church being homophobic, male-dominated, judgmental and negative, or having a political agenda are true of all churches or any single church, the reality is that these perceptions are a significant barrier to trust in the church and acceptance of Christianity.

Dan does not compromise his orthodox beliefs as he interacts and engages with the people and the issues, and neither does he advocate that any church or individual compromise. But he is willing to ask difficult questions – questions that any serious Christian should consider. At the end of each chapter are excellent discussion questions which challenge and provoke thought about specific issues, about the reader’s own attitudes and perceptions, and about ways the reader might take action.

This book has deeply challenged me, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is serious about our great commission to make disciples out of all nations. They Like Jesus But Not The Church is a reminder to me that God is indeed working in the world, and that I am called to be in relationship with people at all points in their journey of faith, doing what I can to help point the way to Jesus, yet trusting that each person is ultimately in God’s hands.

They Like Jesus but Not the Church: Insights from Emerging Generations is a post from: Grow Your Church Show

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Author Randy Newman suggests that we engage people around us in the way Jesus often did- by asking questions, even answering questions with questions. By using dialogue in this rabbinic style, we can engage people in such a way as to get them to think about their beliefs. Furthermore, and maybe more importantly, by doing so we can engage their hearts because a person’s acceptance of the gospel is not solely based on their ability to reason. Questions can get people who have never considered why they believe some things to be true to honestly think about them. Asking questioning can tear down strongholds of false views and build plausibility for the gospel. Examples of this kind of questioning dialogue, often from real conversations, are sprinkled throughout this book.

Of course, not all questions are genuine, or even questions at all, but rather attacks. Newman is aware this. Sometimes the best response is not to answer the attack but to ask a question. Even simple questions like “really?” and “so?” can turn a conversation around. It levels the playing field and opens the path for further serious discussion.

While remaining accessible, the book gives insight on how to respond to weighty questions such as “Why does God allow evil?”, “Why are Christians so homophobic?”, and “If Jesus is so great, why are some of his followers such jerks?” There aren’t easy answers to all the questions. Sometimes there are no answers but the point of this book is not to tell you what to think, but rather to give perspective on how to think about various issues and how to relate to people. We don’t have all the answers and shouldn’t pretend like we do. Rather, it is more important that we honestly and wisely interact with people while pointing to the hope we have.

The intended audience is those who have a strong grasp of the gospel and a desire to declare it to others. Unlike declaring and defending the gospel that serve as a foundation, questioning evangelism doesn’t always strive to give solid answers. Sometimes were not after answers; sometimes were after compassion. Questioning Evangelism is a book on evangelism that isn’t wooden and recognizes that we are mind, body, heart, and soul-questions and all. Not only that, but it is also quite enjoyable to read with plentiful anecdotes and points to ponder. Who would have thought?

Questioning Evangelism is a post from: Grow Your Church Show

I just heard about a book thats getting a lot of response. It’s called Share Jesus Without Fear. Its got 4.5 out of 5 stars at Amazon (after 45 reviews). Here are some of the reviews from Amazon.com

Many evangelism styles are so challenging to the average Christian that they are like asking a baby to run a marathon before they learn to crawl. Share Jesus Without Fear is very practical and the principles presented can be practiced by both the experienced soul winner and the person who is scared to death.

Dr. Fay has witnessed to more than 25,000 people, so he is well able to address the common responses and reactions of people. He gives real-life scenarios that will open your mind to new possibilities with regard to sharing your faith. But the best part is how simple sharing the gospel becomes when you understand his approach. I have been a Christian 20 years, but this is the first time I’ve begun to feel confident to share my faith with anyone.

Share Jesus Without Fear is a post from: Grow Your Church Show

A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.  -Luke 6:45

The first law of effective outreach deals with the church’s heart for the unsaved. The heart leads us into both action and speech; and godly actions and speech without a matching heart make us like Pharisees (Isaiah 29:13, Mark 7:6). It is important to start with a genuine heart for the Lord.

As Bob Pierce, the founder of both Samaritan’s Purse and World Vision once wrote in his Bible, “Let my heart be broken with the things that break the heart of God.” While we are given glimpses of the Lord’s heart many times in scripture, Jesus’ ministry on earth gives us great examples…

In Luke 19:10 Jesus communicated his heart for the unsaved, his outreach identity: “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” Jesus often broke bread with sinners, and cared for the unfortunate. Jesus’ heart was evident in his actions.

Your church has a similar opportunity to communicate its heart, and from it create a clear mission to reach the lost. Here are a few suggestions and principles to build your outreach identity in the 21^st century…

1.  Develop a Mission Statement

A mission statement establishes a foundation for your church. It defines your heart and passion, it prioritizes your programming and directs your resources (budget), and focuses your goals.

A Comprehensive Plan: Establish a vision, core values, and plan of implementation along with your mission statement.  

Inspire to Action: Constantly remind church members of your church mission. Reference it in your literature, in your church announcements and in your sermons on a regular basis.

2. Understand Your Community

Each community is a culture unto itself—with history, perceptions, and occupations unique to its locale. When you consider the demographics and needs of people in your community, your church can better approach them with the Gospel by meeting those needs or answering their important questions.

3. Understand Your People

Take an inventory of the members of your church to determine their gifts and abilities.  Discern ways these gifts can be used for new outreach opportunities. Try a spiritual gifts inventory, or Purpose Driven’s SHAPE assessment.

4. Take a Resource Inventory

Consider the various resources available to your church (in addition to dollars) that might be repurposed for outreach. Consider how resources like your church building, land or vehicles could serve your community. 

5. Assess Ministry Programs

Consider how ministries in your church family are currently reaching out. Every ministry should have at least one outreach component.

6. Identify Partner Ministries & Organizations

Charities likely exist in your community (i.e. your local food pantry). Discover how you might partner with them, leverage their existing networks, and reach even more people for Christ.

7. Update Your Image to Reflect Your Identity

Your image is your outward face of your inward identity. As a matter of integrity, the goal is to have an image that best reflects who you are as a church. Consider how your logo, signage, brochures, ad pieces, other communication materials, and your building work together to represent who you are.

8. Build Bridges Into Your Community

Build both short-term bridges, such as a specific one-time event or message series, and long-term bridges, which consistently meet the needs of people over time, like a support group or food pantry. For further insight on this subject, read The Church of Irresistible Influence by Robert Lewis.

For more information on the 4 Laws of Effective Outreach, and to purchase the 4 Laws seminar DVDs, please visit Outreach.com, or click here.

What is your church’s mission statement?

Outreach Plan – Do You Have One? is a post from: Grow Your Church Show

We try and try to get people to come to church. We think “If they could jsut see how nice anf friendly we are..”

Well Christ called us to GO and make deciples of all nations and one church in Wisconsin is taking GO as a direct order and going to a place where you may find people in need of help: the pub.

Radiant Felloship Church in Waupaca Wis has “Church at the Pub.” A time where members of the church (with permission from the pub owner) hang out and talk everything from sports to pop music with patrons.  The church members buy nonalcoholic bevergaes and listen in a nonjudgemental way to anyone who needs someone to listen. They’ve even helped a woman escape a deomstic violence situation.

They have also given away gas cards, bibles, and grocery gift cards. They may even buy pizza for the patrons.

If they won’t come to you, you need to go to them.

Church at the Pub – Taking the Church to Them is a post from: Grow Your Church Show

I’m about two chapters into the book Leading Congregational Change: A Practical Guide for the Transformational Journey and its becoming very hard to put down. It talks about how the driving force of Congregational Change is Spiritual and Relational Vitality. Jesus even told us this when he said Love the lord your God with all your heart…. (Spiritual Vitality) and to love one another (Relational Vitality).

The authors are Jim Herrington, Mike Bonem, and James H Furr. who have helped churches turn themselves around. As they worked with churches they noticed patterns, and techniques. It really begins with changing yourself from the inside out. I’ll keep you posted as I continue more. The interesting thing is the book is available on the Kindle, but NOT as a hardbound. The Workbook is available in hard bound but not (understandably) on the Kindle.

Leading Congregational Change Part Book Review is a post from: Grow Your Church Show

Is one of the things holding you back from sharing your faith is you think you will be faced with a question you can’t answer? This new book is for you. The best thing of all (if you own a kindle), the book is FREE for the next 10 days.

Here is the book description from amazon.com

Why are Christians against same-sex people getting married? . . . Why do you believe God exists at all? . . . Why would God allow evil and suffering? . . . Why trust the Bible when it’s full of mistakes? . . . How could a loving God send people to hell? . . . What makes you think Jesus was more than just a good teacher? . . . Why are Christians so judgmental?”

Some questions can stop a conversation. Today, more than ever, people are raising difficult, penetrating questions about faith, God, and the Bible. Based on an exclusive new Barna survey of 1,000 Christians, The Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask presents compelling, easy-to-grasp answers to ten of the most troubling questions facing Christians today. These include everything from the existence of heaven to the issues of abortion and homosexuality, as well as the question of whether evolution eliminates our need for a God.

Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask – Free Kindle Book is a post from: Grow Your Church Show

While surfing around Amazon.com from some outreach ideas, I came across a book bundle from outreach magazine. These books are titled
25 Proven Outreach Ideas, and Keep the Change outreach ideas on a shoestring. Here is the description from amazon.com

Includes the one copy of the booklet 25 Proven Outreach Ideas for Your Church and Keep the Change: Outreach on a Shoestring both from The Editors of Outreach magazine. 25 Proven Outreach Ideas for Your Church includes: Step-by-step instructions and resources for 25 creative outreach ideas already working in churches across America (plus some new ones!) including: Photographic Connection. Visitor Gift? Make it Big. Unconventional Chaplaincy. Where could you become a chaplain in your town? VBS Makeover. Make your regular VBS an outreach tour-de-force. Keep the Change: Outreach on a Shoestring includes 22 simple and inexpensive outreach ideas that you can use, or that will inspire you to discover one of your own, including: Make friends with your facility, Create a community presence, Connect with the needs of your neighbors. Books are available separately, or buy here as a bundle and save money.

82 pages. Order Here

Outreach Ideas Book Bundle is a post from: Grow Your Church Show

According to a new report, The Cystal Cathedral home of the “Hour of Power” and previously headed by Robert Schuller (now by his daughter Sheila Schuller Coleman) filed for bankrupcy today. They are in debt to the tune of $43 million.

Some might wonder why? I thought it was interesting that the story states, “The church was founded at a drive-in theater and attracted congregants with its sermons on the power of positive thinking.”

Who else is big on this theme? Jesus loves his children, but you don’t become a Christian for the dental plan. You study and come close to God so you can prosper in his plan. I don’t know (I never attended this church), but I know we are told to preach the gospel, the full gospel, and not just the warm and fuzzy parts.

Even MegaChurches Have Issues is a post from: Grow Your Church Show

I had seen this movie advertised in different Christian Magazines as well as stores like Family Christian. When I saw it arrive in my local red box I decided to rent it.

To Save a Life is designed to get people talking. It wants people talking about teen suicide, divorce, parenting, cutting, drugs, pregnancy, Internet, Christian perspectives, taking your faith seriously, peer pressure, and more.

It appears that this movie was created by a church. To be honest, I’m not sure. In the “behind the scenes” footage it mentioned that the “whole church was involved.” So it is a Christian staff trying to get a Christian viewpoint across without beating people over the head with Jesus. Not an easy task to pull off.

Does the movie inspire people to talk? I watched it with my 13 year old step son, and his mother had a great talk with him after the movie. So it works.

What didn’t work for me was the ability to suspend reality a bit. In the movie, one boy pushed another boy out of the way of an oncoming car (and gets hit instead of him). This results in him having a TERRIBLE limp for the rest of his life. In 2010, I know people who have lost legs and walk better with a fake leg. I know people who have enough hardware in their leg to set off security at airports (and yet they walk fine). This may be just me, but I had a hard time letting go why he has a limp.

To Save a Life stars Randy Wayne (The Haunting of Molly Hartley, The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning), Deja Kreutzberg (TV’s “As the World Turns,” “CSI Miami”), Joshua Weigel (The Butterfly Circus), Robert Bailey, Jr. (The Happening), Kim Hidalgo (Ball Don’t Lie), Sean Michael Afable (Akeelah and the Bee), Bubba Lewis (TV’s “Medium”), and Steven Crowder (TV’s “Greek”). As I was unfamiliar with all of these actors, I didn’t expect Oscar winning performances. In the case of Deja Kreutzberg I just never bought her as a girlfriend. How hard can it be to act like you love Randy Wayne (the kid has incredible eyes)? There were some zigs and zags in the story of their romance, and I didn’t feel any of them. If they stayed together or not, I didn’t feel as if either character would care.

In the middle of the movie Josh’s character Zack has the worst day of his life (everything hit the fan). This was almost to the point of being comical. Everywhere he went, things just fell apart. I would’ve preferred to have some of the drama unfold a bit evenly.

The movie does have a decent soundtrack and koodos to Switchfoot for having the song “Dare you to move” in the movie (but oddly enough not on the soundtrack?). The soundtrack features music from Superchick, Kendall Payne, Da Enforcerz, Paul Wright and more.

The movie is rated PG-13 as it deals with all the teen issues I mentioned earlier straight on, and does not sugar coat anything.

Would I watch this movie again? No. Would I tell all my friends with kids to watch this? Absolutely.

You can purchase as well as rent the movie  at Amazon.com you can find resources for your youth group at www.tosavealifemovie.com

To Save A Life Movie Review is a post from: Grow Your Church Show

Outreach has come out with their Small Church America issue with tips and insights from small churches and what they are doing to build their members, and lead other to Christ.

You can buy the issue here

Here is a sample as the fourth of July was a few weeks ago.

Fourth of July Parade
“One of the most effective outreaches for us has been our town’s Fourth of July parade,” says Pastor Shane Frazier. “Here in our county of 55,000 people, the parade is a big deal, and 25,000-30,000 people attend. Knowing this, our church goes all out and participates in the float-decorating contest, tying it in with an upcoming message series. For a $10 entry fee and the cost of the giveaways we pass out, we’ve seen a lot of people give church a try.

“Last year, the parade theme was ‘Lights, Camera, Boone County,’ and we just happened to be launching a new series called ‘At the Movies’ the following Sunday. We made a huge rotating movie reel that showed what looked like movie scenes, which actually were pictures of Freedom [Church] attendees. We attached a large popcorn box imprinted with the date of the message series. About 50 volunteers passed out microwave bags of popcorn with an insert in them about our church and the new series. It was a huge hit! We won first place in the overall floats. Now, we have a sponsor this year.”
                                                                                               —Freedom Church, Lebanon, Ind.

Small Church Outreach is a post from: Grow Your Church Show

You rarely hear anything good about Christianity, let alone someone saying it can save someone’s life. Well Bret Hume did just this on a recent Fox news message. Now I’m sure this will set off a bunch of scoffing by the media, but it was inspiring to see someone in such a public place stand up for their faith.

The Courage to Stand Up is a post from: Grow Your Church Show

I just read a great article about using Twitter as an outreach tool. I mentioned in a previous episode about how I use twitter to share prayter concerns, and announce events (remember many people receive “tweets” on their phone).

This article talks about how using the advanced search features  you can filter by zip code to see tweets from your area. Thats is really cool. You can do this via search.twitter.com 

To read the article click here

More Uses For Twitter is a post from: Grow Your Church Show