What Doesn’t Impress Me About Your Thriving Church
Oct 24
- The hundreds or thousands of people who’ve decided to pick your church to attend.
- How smooth your worship services are executed.
- The modern facilities you’ve developed.
- The focus of God bettering your life that your church baits its congregants with week after week.
- 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?
- How it is giving more money away than spending on its own ministry costs.
- Your worship services are real, not produced.
- 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.
- The focus for your church is to serve God and his interests, not how God can help us and our interests.
- 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.
6. FREE WIFI!
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?”
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.