Does Your Language Empower People to Communicate the Message?

Posted by on Jan 18, 2011 in Communications | 0 comments I love the creativity of church planters.  But sometimes, I have to caution that too much creativity in the choice of our words can create communication barriers.  You may very well be able to communicate clearly what missional incarnational living means.  But the goal isn’t whether people can understand you when you have time to unpack your language.  The goal is whether the average...
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Friday Church Planting Resource: Church Community Builder

Posted by on Dec 10, 2010 in Church Planting, Communications, Discipleship, Pastoral | 0 comments I remember in the no so distance past when my home church tracked attendance and prayer requests with pew books.  How the times have changed.  Today churches manage their communications and databases in much more sophisticated ways.  My favorite tool on the market is Church Community Builder.  It has all the bells and whistles like online giving, social networking integration,...
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Friday Church Planting Resource: Free Bible Page from YouVersion

Posted by on Dec 3, 2010 in Communications, Discipleship, Resources | 0 comments Lifechurch.tv has a reputation for being generous.  YouVersion is one of their best known free resources and has put the Bible in the hands of millions for free.  Now they are making it easy for you to give away the Bible for free to people on their mobile devices.  They have created a web page generator that you can put on your website with a link to download YouVersion on your mobile device....
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Test Run Your Church Planting Marketing Plan

Posted by on Sep 7, 2010 in Communications | 0 comments Marketing is expensive and in many cases is less effective today than it was a decade ago.  I’d argue its just as effective, but the target audience of most church marketing is shrinking.  The low hanging fruit that could easily be captured with marketing has been picked.  Alan Hirsch says that only 40% of the population can be reached with traditional church models.  That’s easy...
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Friday Church Planting Resource: The Prayer Engine

Posted by on Sep 3, 2010 in Communications, Prayer, Resources | 0 comments I remember the good ole days when we had the church prayer chain.  A request was submitted and then each person called on the phone the next person on the chain to get the prayer team praying.  E-mail pretty well killed that method.  With the prayer engine, the email prayer group has gone the way of the dodo.  One of the key problems with traditional prayer team methods is that unless the...
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Friday Church Planting Resource: WordPress

Posted by on Jul 23, 2010 in Communications, Resources | 0 comments Most people look at WordPress as simply a blogging platform.  While it certainly was born as blogging platform, WordPress has evolved to become a legitimate content management system for websites.  An entire developer community has evolved around WordPress.  There are thousands of plug-ins that can be used to customize the WordPress experience.  There’s even an app store for WordPress...
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