Yet again the links have piled up around me faster than I can blog them, so it’s time to blow the dam and just let you have them. Here we go…
- The Visitor’s Card – The most potentially interesting of the new Outreach Magazine blogs, it’s written by a non-Christian describing her experiences visiting church (via Dan Ohlerking)
- Beer and the Bible – Interesting news article about a church outreach that unfortunately draws too much attention to the alcohol. The pastor of the church in question offers some explanation in a comment on this blog post (via Brenton Balvin).
- Does Size Matter? – Swerve, the new blog from lifechurch.tv, has an interesting series on church size.
- My Dad Went to Church. Yay! – A video of a son taking his dad to church for the first time in 20 years–this is what it’s all about. It’s also so raw and quirky that it almost seems made up, but that’s just the Internet hoaxist in me. (via Tony Morgan)
Don’t worry, there’s much, much more after the jump …
- Conducting a Church Missional Survey – Drew Goodmanson shares the results of his church’s survey, what they learned and the actual survey so you can do your own.
- 40% of Pastors Lack Strong Interest in Increasing Community Outreach – Plus statistics about the methods churches are using to reach out (via Church Relevance)
- Methodists go MySpace – Those crazy Methodists, apparently they’ve added MySpace-like social networking features to their denomination site. Interesting idea. (via Joe Suh)
- My Assuming Language – Another Swerve post, this time on the need to ditch the Christianese, especially when talking to reporters.
- Ted Haggard’s Accuser Visits His Church – There’s a potentially awkward situation, but it sounds like it was a good experience for everyone.
- 10 ways NOT to start a church, but that God can overcome even if you do – Biblical examples that sometimes God will move through less than perfect plans (or perhaps those are perfect plans, just not our kind of perfect).
- Sex Crazy – Don’t worry, it’s just more church marketing. (via Joe Suh)
- We Can’t Do Megachurch Anymore – The story of a wannabe megachurch imploding and discovering something new.
- Pastor’s Guide to E-Newsletters – Outreach offers an easy guide to doing church e-mail newsletters.
- Spiritual salaries go performance-based at Chesapeake church – New trends in evaluating and compensating church staff.
- You might have us confused with that other church – The Bible offers few rules about how to do church: “God wants us to work out a lot of messy, inadequate and confusing things in our churches because that’s how we grow spiritually.”
- The Right Place to Be Wrong – “Even though everyone entering had something that needed care, or something that was wrong with them, it was okay, because they were in just the right place to be wrong.” (via Joe Suh, again)
