Comments on: Churches Should Stop Marketing

By: All Churches Are Marketing « Alexklimchuk’s Weblog

All Churches Are Marketing « Alexklimchuk’s Weblog — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:32:24 +0000

[...] few weeks ago, I started a conversation about church marketing. Among other things I shared that if your church or ministry is not growing, it’s [...]

By: Mark Josephs

Mark Josephs — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:53:33 +0000

Marketing expresses the Vision given to you by God!

By: Why Church Marketing Should Stop | Shore Youth Ministry

Why Church Marketing Should Stop | Shore Youth Ministry — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:13:12 +0000

[...] a previous post, I commented on Tony Morgan’s post “Churches Should Stop Marketing.” Tony has now posted a followup post entitled “Why Churches Should Stop [...]

By: Tony York

Tony York — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:53:43 +0000

Would love to know if Tony Morgan thought he would generate the response that he has received on this post… not the numbers but the content of the feedback.

By: Brice Bohrer

Brice Bohrer — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:55:45 +0000

I guess I am just not getting it.

God protects you so why do you lock your doors?

Lift up Christ and He will draw the people. Of course. So take down your sign outside. In fact don’t tell anyone you are having church. God will bring them after all. Take your number out of the phone book. God will let them know your number if they need it.

Everyone is trying to be so spiritual and missing out on God’s common sense.

100 bucks says this turns out to be some philosophical thing about marketing and nothing changes. They still have billboards, still an ad for sermon branding up top there and so on. Do we believe in gambling?

And I am allowed to be critical. Or is this like Christian movies out there and we all just have to like them and not rock the boat. I can click away, but what would the fun of that be. Tony’s marketing has already worked on me. I am here to see what happens.

By: anne jackson

anne jackson — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:11:41 +0000

this is fun. can’t wait.

By: Church Marketing | Four Winds Stirring

Church Marketing | Four Winds Stirring — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:19:52 +0000

[...] found Tony Morgan’s blog and read his post about church marketing where he says: Marketing is becoming a barrier to the advancement of the Gospel message. It’s [...]

By: Jose HC

Jose HC — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:12:44 +0000

Didn’t finish the thought… If we lift Christ up in our church and in everything we do… He will draw the people. The problem is that we are too preoccupied with programs and church growth methodologies and have forgotten the reason why we do ‘church’ to begin with.

By: Jose HC

Jose HC — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:11:07 +0000

At the end it is God who attracts people (and most importantly changes them). Imagine filling a church because of a marketing campaign and people are not changed… this adds no eternal value. If we depend more on God and on His lead He brings the people. Perhaps a little bit out of context but I kind of relate this to John 12:32 “But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.”

By: Carey

Carey — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:22:40 +0000

I’ve been saying this for a long time. It’s why I left a full-time job in church communications to go to grad. school, studying Higher Ed. Administration.

I have a feeling when I stop by in a few days, the message in this post won’t really be what I wish it was. But I do agree that Jeremy’s got a point. Everyone is a minister, everyone has a hope has a message to share. (Now, it’s a whole ‘nother issue that too many people aren’t equipped to share their faith at all, or even know what that would look like for them…but I’m not bitter, not at all.)