Easter Service Checklist

April 15, 2011

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 [...]

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Free Christian Audio Book

April 3, 2011

We have a special deal for the Grow Your Church Show listening audience. You can receive one free audio book and a 14 day trial from Audible. There are over 1008 titles in the Religious and inspirational category alone (over 85,000 titles on the whole site). You could sign up for your free trial any [...]

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Getting People Into Church on Easter

March 29, 2011

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 [...]

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They Like Jesus but Not the Church: Insights from Emerging Generations

March 21, 2011

[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, [...]

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Questioning Evangelism

March 14, 2011

[amazonify]082543324X:left[/amazonify] 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 [...]

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Share Jesus Without Fear

March 10, 2011

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 [...]

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Outreach Plan – Do You Have One?

March 9, 2011

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 [...]

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Church at the Pub – Taking the Church to Them

January 17, 2011

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 [...]

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Leading Congregational Change Part Book Review

December 3, 2010

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

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Host Your Churches Website for .99 a Month

November 25, 2010
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download If you’ve listened to this podcast you know I’m a big Fan of Host Gator. Well they are offering some “Black Friday Offers” First off all to anyone on the email list this is a bit of a rerun and I apologize. Without further ado, here is the [...]

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