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The Attractive Church Checklist

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The Attractive Church Checklist (Increasing our friendship factor) #1 Making “welcoming” everybody’s business. The majority of congregations consider themselves very friendly and are never intentionally unfriendly or rude to those who might attend for the first time looking for a church home or that come searching for an answer to a spiritual need. But, if most new people do not come back a second time, then, maybe, we need to consider how we might revamp and improve our “friendship factor”. Socrates said: “An unexamined life is not worth living”. I have found that it is helpful, as a chruch leader, to regularly evaluate how we are doing in every area of ministry and make adjustments, if necessary, so as to remain effective for the cause of Christ. It is much easier to “tweak” something than wait till it has fallen apart. The Goal: That the whole congregation understand and practice that welcoming new people is everybody’s business. The Need: Ensure that our greeters
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“Different” Evangelists needed for our Churches?"  I love being around evangelists! Over the years I have been privileged to see God at work when personally involved in the ministries of Luis Palau, Terry Winter, Michael Green and recently as evangelist and trainer with the Billy Graham team. Seeing people come to Christ deeply moves me and brings me tears of joy. I recall a lady I led to Christ last week, greeting me effervescently: “This has been the best week of my entire life!” How can you ever get tired of evangelism? I consider it a high honour to be invited by churches to preach and help them reach others for Christ! While every follower of Jesus is called to be a witness and can lead people to personal faith in Christ the bible recognises that some of us have the gift of an evangelist. In Ephesians there is one of the few bible references to “evangelists” - but it tells us something noteworthy about their role in the local church. “It was he who gave some to be a
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