Get Your Strategy On
Have you received your September/October issue of Rev Magazine yet? The issue features a cover story from Tim and me on attracting a crowd to your church. Not sure if you should read this article? Maybe you should consider, first, whether or not you’ve ever experienced this…
Be honest. Have you ever been in a church service where you had to try as hard as you could to stay awake? You know what I’m talking about. You begin to gaze out the window as the message drones on. Your eyelids grow heavier. Your head begins to nod. Drool starts to drip down the side of your chin. Soon there are visions of sugarplums dancing in your head. The sugarplums start out waltzing. Then they form a kick line. Then the sugarplums start a line dance, and you begin humming a bad country tune. As you try to regain consciousness, you start to ponder the question, “Is there such a thing as a good country tune?” It doesn’t matter, of course, since you have Jesus in your achy breaky heart.
Something tells me I’m going to see a sharp decrease in Nashville subscribers with this post. Makes you wonder what new country songs people will write about my blog, though, doesn’t it?
Tony Morgan is a pastor and the Chief Strategic Officer at NewSpring Church where he develops creative solutions for communications, technology and NewSpring Ministries--the church's ministry that equips other church leaders.
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