What Your Church can Learn About Marketing from a Thai Restaurant

Let me ask you something – should churches be into marketing? After all, it’s the Gospel of Christ that we’re “selling”? Is it really appropriate? Should we be following secular ways?

My answer, is an unequivocal ABSOLUTELY! Here’s why:

Have You Ever Been Too Ashamed to Take Communion?

Recently we were having Communion at church and I noticed that a woman across the aisle from me declined the communion elements as they came around. You have to ask yourself … why would she knock back this special time of just quietly remembering Jesus?

Well the most common reason is that from time to time, because of some recent sin, we feel too ashamed to participate in Communion.

Miracle in Rwanda

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Rwanda is a country that as you know, has been through incredible pain … and the healing process is a long one. But God is right in the middle of that!

People’s Radio Rwanda (their national, publicly owned broadcaster) airs our Christianityworks radio program each Saturday night in prime time. (That’s a bit like getting a Bible teaching program airing nationally on the BBC in the UK or the ABC in Australia). So just being on air is a miracle in itself!

That’s why what happened late last year is just so amazing!

Pensioner’s Body Left to Rot for Years

Every now and then a news story comes along that shocks and unsettles us. Such is the story of Natalie Wood, the pensioner who would have been 87 this year … except for the fact that she died 8 years ago and her skeleton wasn’t discovered in her rundown, forlorn looking house until just the other day.

Can we kill off the Newcomers’ Lunch … pleeeease?

If I hear of one more “newcomer’s lunch” at a church … I think I’m gonna scream. Now that’s going to upset a few pastors! What’s wrong with a newcomer’s lunch?

Well – in my view, pretty much everything!