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Free Social Media Handbook For Churches

By barrywhitlow On February 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Church Communication, Church Growth, Social Media

This is so good just had to share.

Think about it. What else can your church spend 3o minutes a day doing that will bring two new families to your church every month (or more)?  Two new families a month equals 24 new families in a year.

Think about the positive impact that would have [...]

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Vision Leaks? No, It Spills!

By barrywhitlow On February 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Church Communication, Church Growth, Spiritual Growth, Vision Casting

When it comes to casting vision to people in today’s distracted ever-connected world, vision does not just leak, it spills.

Every Sunday streams of people enter your church already filled to overflowing with information. But not your information. The vision you cast last week is gone. Long gone.

Where did it go? Well it didn’t just just [...]

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The Changing Role Of Church Greeters

By barrywhitlow On February 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Church Growth, Greeters, Guest Services

In today’s always connected-all about me American culture, the role of the church greeter is changing.

No longer is a handshake and a bulletin enough to connect with the first time church visitor.  To connect with [the heart of] today’s visitor, greeters must wear several different hats.

One of the reasons for the change comes from [...]

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The Eagle Has Landed (Again)

By barrywhitlow On January 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Purpose

Forty two years ago, Neil Armstrong uttered the iconic words “The Eagle has landed.” While NASA controllers in Houston, and much of the planet, held its collective breath, Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set down the Eagle Lunar Module, becoming the first men to land on the moon.

It was 4:17 p.m. when the [...]

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The [Not So] Golden Globes

By barrywhitlow On January 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Morality, Spiritual Growth

After watching this years Golden Globes and enduring the carnality of several of our country’s brightest(?) stars, I was reminded of the sad moral path our country is headed.

History has proven that a country is only as strong as the strength of their moral convictions.

Here is what one of God’s stars [...]

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The Coming Age Of Church Disruption

By barrywhitlow On December 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Beyond The Norm, Church Communication, Church Growth, Church Planting, The Disruption Age

Whether they know it or not, “disruption” IS the main topic and strategy for churches in 2012.

In 2012 churches will either be managing disruption, or creating it. Just like Amazon and the Kahn Academy have disrupted retail and education, numerous outside influences are poised to disrupt the local church, and many [...]

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Holy Church Frustration Batman

By barrywhitlow On December 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Church Communication Matters

As a pastor and church leader I’ve always been sort of a rebel. I look at things not as they are, but as they could be. That’s not an easy path, particularly in the church world where along with the bad economy safe often is the understated status quo.

One reality in the church world is that 70% of the people living [...]

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The Art Of Sunday Communication

By barrywhitlow On November 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Church Communication Matters

This Sunday I had a chance to observe an artist paint a sermon.

Here’s what made this sermon art:

Relevant. A current cultural event was used to help communicate the point. Multimedia. Included the language of today throughout their communication. Passion. If the message does not come from the heart everyone might as [...]
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The Evolution Of Church Communication

By barrywhitlow On November 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Church Communication Matters

Like medicine God intended [church] COMMUNICATION to be evolutionary. If we are not communicating in church differently now than we did 20, 10, 5, or even 2 years ago, then we are lagging behind the way our culture communicates.

That’s important because as the CHURCH COMMUNICATION GAP between the church and those [...]

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Top 5 Reasons To Use MORE Video In Your Services

By barrywhitlow On November 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Church Communication Matters, Video In Church

The impact of video use on the church is greater than most church leaders imagine.

Top 5 Reasons To Use MORE Video In Your Church Services:

1. Video is the #1 information delivery tool in the world today. With over 3-billion videos viewed on Youtube every day and 80 million hours of videos being watched [...]
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