Jesus, in His earthly ministry, couldn’t preach to everyone; so, He practiced preaching to personas. He knew His local audience! And then, what He said reached a greater audience. Can you preach to everyone? No. You need to know your local audience, get their attention, and then preach God’s Word. And thanks...
It can be challenging to manage the morale of church volunteers. But there are many reasons why volunteers may experience low morale; from burnout, to volunteer stress, to interpersonal conflicts. However, a church's success often relies on its volunteers' engagement, and it's impossible to achieve much without happy, motivated volunteers. In fact,...
Every church member needs to hear controlled messages that are repeated so they understand and remember them. Often, when messages are left uncontrolled, the church member doesn’t know critical things that every Pastor wishes they did! “Why don’t our people know?” is often asked in churches that don’t disciple well with controlled messages....
The church welcome time is so important in your church for three reasons: 1) to be friendly to regular attenders, 2) to demonstrate the way for members to be friendly to each other, and 3) to make guests feel appreciated for attending (so hopefully, they’ll return)! When your church welcome time occurs during...
How can you tell the things people need to know about your church? Online communication, with the help of analytic data, shows what people are looking for. If the majority look in a specific place on a church website, then we can assume that most people want to know that information about...
It's important to know how to do a church welcome during a Sunday service. Welcoming visitors properly is the first step to creating longtime new church members. Church growth starts by making people welcome! Based on the many churches I’ve visited as a "mystery visitor", here are 5 tips for ensuring first-time guests...
A church communication strategy checklist could be very long for most churches! In fact, trying to get communication correct (for any organization) is a customized, difficult task. Why? Because every church’s audience is quite different, with different needs. Combine that with the multiple ministries you can offer. It’s difficult to get all...
Pastor, there’s differences between preaching in a room and preaching online. You understand, because the last few years has been a challenge! For hundreds of years we’ve been communicating to people, in real life (IRL), in a room. Growing that audience has been a challenge throughout our history but we’ve gone into...
I understand. It’s difficult to talk about things Pastors aren’t saying since they juggle so much! They’re responsible for delivering weekly Biblical messages, leadership of staff and volunteers, engaging the congregation, and studying on top of that. Plus, many other tasks go unnoticed too! The time the Pastor spends as the on-stage church...
