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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