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I didn’t know whether I should cry or vomit when I saw this. This is a video clip from First Baptist Church right here in Hammond, Indiana: Be sure to catch the part around minute 2:12 where Pastor Jack Schapp points out that each visitor cost the church $12.50. I’m sure your neighbor will feel [...]
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This is ingenious. A reminder to those looking for a job: Think outside of the box. What if churches bought up interesting search terms like “Christianity sucks” or “Is God real?” On a more practical level, churches should buy up the search term “church (your city).”
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Should they? If the emphasis is on making disciples, then there really is no competition. In John 4, when Jesus finds out people have taken notice that he baptized more people than John (his disciples did, anyways), he gets out of the way, interestingly enough. Yet when churches use marketing tactics and strategic business planning [...]
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I’ve actually attended a church that does this, very interesting. I think it’s good that these guys tie it in to Christ at the end and share the good news about Christ, despite my theological quibbles with the “altar call” methodology. So long as this is truly being done to the glory of God, I [...]
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This is a short soundbite from a talk by Bryan Wolfmueller entitled “Decisional Theology.” You can listen to the full talk at Issues, Etc. by clicking here. Soundbite on Decisional Theology from Dan O'Day on Vimeo. This is a short soundbite from a talk by Bryan Wolfmueller entitled “Decisional Theology.” You can listen to the [...]
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I was listening to a podcast on Issues Etc. earlier this week and I was struck by a profound thought. The title of the podcast was “The Vocation of Minister.” I’d normally link directly to it but the site appears to be down as I’m writing this, nothing will load. The guest speaker was talking [...]
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Thanks for all the recommendations. I did end up finding a couple artists I enjoyed. I couldn’t help but post this video. I saw it at Extreme Theology and just had to post it. This guy is very honest and authentic about his feelings toward Christian music, and I tend to agree with him:
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I remember listening to Kurt Cobain singing “come as you are” in the 90′s. I also remember hearing dozens of churches latch on to this statement. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t think people need to be all polished up before coming to Jesus, nor do I think folks need to dress up on [...]
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I recently read that on average it costs $100,000 to plant a church, and 80% of new church plants will fail. It really makes you wonder about how well these new institutional church plants are doing at being good stewards of God’s money. That’s right, I said “God’s money.” It doesn’t matter who is financially [...]
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Look no further. Up until now, I’ve been recommending vCHURCHES as an inexpensive and effective utility for church website creation. But I ran across something better recently: Clover. Here’s a 60-second video showing you its capabilities: Clover 60 Second Video from Clover on Vimeo. If you’re in the market, you’ll definitely want to check this [...]
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I saw this quote at Between Two Worlds, who got it from Tony Payne. It speaks volumes to churches that rely on the same marketing tactics and progress reports that are being utilized by corporate culture, rather than biblical measures as defined in this quote: The measure of how ministry is progressing in your church [...]
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The Church has faithfully done this, at least until recently. But I do know that there is still a large remnant who keeps the main thing the main thing: Jesus Christ at the center. I saw an interesting post on my shared feeds the other day entitled Why Coke beat Pepsi for the last 100+ [...]
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I saw this at Extreme Theology and laughed at how true it is. I can’t tell you how many VBS programs are themed after very worldly things (pop-culture icons, popular movies, etc.) and do a very poor job of teaching the love of Jesus Christ to children. On the bright side, it gets the children [...]
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My wife, mom, brother, friend, cousins and I went to the Indianapolis 500 this year. We saw a couple groups of people who were “evangelizing” on the streets. The first example we saw was a group of people simply handing out gospel tracts by asking, “Did you get one of these?” Subtle, yet it can [...]
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Attracting true followers isn’t so easy. I saw this over at iMonk.
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As the above ad shows, seeker-sensitivity can get out of hand. But sometimes in our efforts to denounce it we end up shredding up the good guys in the process, who are merely using cultural illustrations to teach the Gospel. Today I read a great post by Charlie Lehmann dealing with the strengths and limits [...]
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This is one of those occasions where I’ve read a blog post that is absolutely genius and needs to be shared. Geoff Surratt, owner of the blog Inner Revolution wrote an amazing post entitled Harvesting without planting. You have to read it! It’s rather short and quoting it would only spoil it, go read it [...]
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Yesterday Tiffany and I visited yet another church. It was fairly nice, but like most churches, it just struck us as being very fake, it didn’t feel authentic. The worship leader talks a lot like a stoned hippie: “Let’s just focus on the King this morning…”, “Can you feel the Spirit as we magnify our [...]
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