What can the church learn from Apple?

Does your church take design seriously (architecture, worship, long range planning, etc.)? Does your church offer guest-friendly “try before you buy” environments? Is your church’s view of the world present in how you design worship? Does your church welcome the question “Why is it like that?” around the subject of worship? How much attention is [...]

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The Multichannel Church

From The Lutheran by Tom Ehrich: I think it’s time we saw that the world has changed and what we know how to do — Sunday liturgies, capable preaching, Sunday ministries of teaching and welcoming — stopped being enough many years ago. In drifting away from church, you see, people aren’t saying no to God [...]

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Switchfoot – Crazy in Love

Switchfoot covers one of the best pop songs ever written (in my opinion).

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To Print or Not to Print

From Tony Morgan… Feel free to keep investing in print communications if your highest priority is keeping your “internal customers” happy. Just thought you should know that other organizations are using the web to reach the same people you’re probably trying to reach in your community. So what else does your church do to keep [...]

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Pray the Devil Back to Hell

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To be alone with me you went up on the tree

I’d swim across lake Michigan I’d sell my shoes I’d give my body to be back again In the rest of the room To be alone with you To be alone with you To be alone with you To be alone with you You gave your body to the lonely They took your clothes You [...]

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The New Traditional Church’s Approach to Websites

From Tony Morgan… Rather than looking at the Web through the eyes of a Facebook and YouTube and Twitter user, though, we’re still looking at the Web through the eyes of a Sunday bulletin reader. That approach works for the people who are already attending our churches. It completely ignores the people who we are [...]

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Why not hip-hop?

Tony Morgan writes about the new traditional church and what kind of music they use in worship. I think the number one reason why rock and pop is the predominant genre of music in churches is this: our worship music has become the new “hymns” of the new traditional church. In other words, we grew [...]

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Playing for Change

Playing for Change – “Stand By Me”

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They Like Jesus But Not the Church

Perhaps a better title is “They Like Jesus But Not Christians.” One of the things I love about Covenant is the tag line to our mission statement… We make every decision on behalf of, and in the best interest of, those who are not yet here. If that is true, we have to take the [...]

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