You may assume based on my previous writing that I’m not a big fan of events. If so, you would be right. Generally speaking, I think events are killing the church.
That said, I do believe there’s a place for events if they’re done right. Here’s a chart to help you consider what distinguishes a healthy event from an unhealthy one.
If you haven’t in the past, now would be a good time to list every event your church offers in a given calendar year. Then, as a team, assess whether or not it’s healthy.
Use this as an opportunity to either get the unhealthy events in the healthy column. Or, if that’s not possible, maybe it’s time you stopped offering the unhealthy events.
Whatever you do, don’t continue scheduling the event because you’ve always done it. That’s one of the reasons why events are killing the church.
charles stone
great one Tony-so many churches do this very thing-same old event every time just because
Brent Dumler
Love the list, Tony. It leads leaders to intentionality and purpose rather than contentment and setting our speed to leadership ‘cruise.’ I’d love to see what would happen if the Church used this list as a filter for all there events at least once every year or two.
Scott Cassel
Brilliant list, thank you for posting it. I’ll be referring to it in the next staff meeting!
Tony M.
I love it when I hear folks are engaging conversations like this with their staff team. Best encouragement I could receive. Thanks!
Tony Morgan
Tony, any chance you’ve got that two column chart in a text form? I’d sure like to extract some stuff from it for a blind friend, and as a graphic, it doesn’t exist to him.
David Hooper
Love it. The one possible exception to this is our ‘Legendary Volunteers Celebration’ where the Staff serve dinner to all the volunteers, and it’s almost completely insider focused. Now I’m going to copy down that list.
Michael Moore
Tony, I love it!! This list is spot on and so strategic!! Thanks for sharing it with us!!