What Doesn’t Impress Me About Your Thriving Church

Oct 24

  1. The hundreds or thousands of people who’ve decided to pick your church to attend.
  2. How smooth your worship services are executed.
  3. The modern facilities you’ve developed.
  4. The focus of God bettering your life that your church baits its congregants with week after week.
  5. You’ve got programs for every age group (Infant Bible Quiz) and every stage of life (the Ex-Chef Recovery Program)

So what does impress me about your church?

  1. How it is giving more money away than spending on its own ministry costs.
  2. Your worship services are real, not produced.
  3. Rather than simply amass oceans of people, your church has churned out so many incredible leaders for Christ taking a stand in their church (even if it’s not yours anymore), workplace/school, and family.
  4. The focus for your church is to serve God and his interests, not how God can help us and our interests.
  5. You don’t need all those programs that other churches must hire full-time staff members to run, because your congregation assumes the responsibility to love and disciple one another.

3 comments

  1. avatar

    6. FREE WIFI!

    • avatar

      So, Joel, is this what you’re talking about? 🙂

      Man 1: “So how was your service at church today?”
      Man 2: “Depends…are you talking about the worship or the WIFI?”

  2. avatar

    Actually, I am impressed when a church offers open wifi because it doesn’t make sense for them to do it. They want people engaged into the service, not off on the Internet. However, I use internet access regularly during church to research if what a preacher is saying is true or to dig deeper into it because he is just glancing over a topic, and I’m curious. I don’t think this should be discouraged.

    On your list, #2 doesn’t seem quite right. If we just look at worship, we could be guilty of looking at the outward appearance. It seems that there has to be a transparency from within, and that will probably make the service seem less produced, but that production approach won’t be the goal.

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