Guests: Five Follow Up Principles

One of the most important things a church does is to follow up on guests who visit the church or any activity sponsored by the church. It is a key to church growth. Each church must customize what works best in their particular setting. Churches today are rethinking the follow…

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Getting Ready for Guests, Part 3

Romans 12:13 says, “Practice hospitality.” Churches need to be places that are hospitable, friendly, loving, and welcoming. They should be places where people smile and one can easily see the love of Jesus. This is Part 3 in this series on making guests feel welcome, but to be honest we…

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Getting Ready for Guests, Part 2

Getting ready for company is an important element to growing churches. Growing churches expect guests each Sunday and spend much energy and time getting ready for their arrival. When the James Gang have company coming to our house I usually do the vacuuming and I must tell you, I am…

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Getting Ready for Guests, Part 1

Churches spend lots of energy, money, and time enhancing the worship experience. We spend some really big bucks on sound, video projecting, lighting, banners, worship music, etc. That is a good thing, but is it enough? For that matter if a pastor spends 20 hours preparing for his message on Sunday,…

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God’s Stimulus Package

Everywhere you turn we are hearing about the economy and the stimulus package.  Honestly, I don’t completely understand what’s contained in this stimulus package, but I do hope it helps our economy and especially my annuity! How did we get in this economic melt down?  I don’t have a degree in…

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Step Up to Discipleship

Discipleship is a step (decision) followed by a walk. In the Bible we discover a great one-word description of what discipleship is.  Read the following Scriptures… 1 John 2:6   “Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.” 2 John 6   “And this is love: that we walk…

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