Archive for Archive for March, 2009
Great Quote For The Day
This one comes from Pastor Steven Furtick of Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC:
If my generation isn’t careful, we may fall into a Guitar Hero mentality toward ministry:
Everybody wants to be a rock star, but no one wants to learn the chords.
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Ed Stetzer On Receptive People
This is from Ed Stetzer’s blog. Much of it is familiar but it is a great reminder of the open doors for the gospel which are provided by personal relationships.
Here’s his blog post which can also be found at http://blogs.lifeway.com/blog/edstetzer/2009/03/receptive-audiences.html
Yesterday I talked with Cathy Lynn Grossman for USA Today about Americans’ receptivity to evangelistic contacts [...]
18 Tips To Help Memorize Scripture
The following are some strategies put together by Demian Farnworth to help in memorizing Scripture.
1. Read it repeatedly. Did you know you can memorize Scripture during your morning devotion? Instead of zipping through your reading for the day, pause and camp on one verse for a long time. You won’t regret it.
2. Pay attention. Sounds [...]
scribd.com
Just became aware of a web site called scribd.com which has free books and periodicals along with some sample pages. I looked through a couple of the magazines that are available and it looks good.
Could be another great resource, and, best of all, it’s free!
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Church Hopping Score Card
Thanks to Prodigal Jon over at the StuffChristiansLike blog for this scorecard rating church hoppers. For anybody involved in ministry…..you know the type!
The Church Hopping Score Card
If you leave without even getting out of your car because you can’t find a good parking spot = +1 point
While visiting a new church you park in the [...]
Top Church Web Site Features
Cynthia Ware over at The Digital Sanctuary just completed a survey of the top ten features the respondents would be likely to use on a church web site. After assessing 100 church web sites here are the results:
Highest Rated =
Find service information (times, directions, etc).
Listen to/download Sermons (audio recordings).
Learn about the church’s Beliefs/Mission/Values
Connect with other [...]
Seth Godin Quoted
People don’t believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves. What leaders do: they give people stories they can tell themselves. Stories about the future and about change.
from Tribes by Seth Godin
Allah In Church?
"We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only son of Allah.” These are words repeated daily in Mass by many Catholics in Malaysia. Muslims find the usage offensive even though it is the normal word for God in Malay, feeling that it is being used in an attempt to convert Muslims to Christianity. [...]
Sunday Blunders
churchmarketingsucks.com recently did a poll of 400 of their readers to ask them which Sunday blunder irritates them the most.
The top irritations, at least among the respondents were:
An irrelevant, rambling sermon (38%)
Unfriendly greeters ( 18%)
Typos in bulletins and on worship slides (18%)
Services going long (7%)
No altar call (5%)
It’s interesting [...]
Shreddies & The Church
Who would think that the 67 year old breakfast cereal "Shreddies" could serve as a lesson to the church in the 21st century?
While reading the Montreal Gazette’s Business Section I came across a marketing article about the successful campaign to reposition Kraft’s Shreddies. In the extremely competitive world of breakfast cereal its market penetration had [...]
