It’s been a while since I posted a Thom Rainer numbered list. This one is helpful. Our weekly sheet is overdue for a redesign. There’s a brief explanation for each of these at Rainer’s site, but I included all of point seven because it was interesting to me as being different from what I see …
Master list producer Thom Rainer provides seven reasons some church members don’t want their churches to grow. It’s important to know that people who love Jesus as Lord and Saviour and who want others to be saved can fall into these patterns. They need to be sensitively identified and addressed from the perspective of finding …
Thom Rainer’s blog continues to be a great source of helpful information. In this list of guest-friendly church characteristics Rainer sets a score of 11 out of 14 being required to be considered guest friendly. They are intentional about being friendly. The leaders model warmth, humility, and friendliness. The leaders are clear that genuine friendliness …
Having written about my satisfaction seeing that the practice of getting everyone to stand up and greet each other during church was listed as the number one thing which puts of newcomers in a list published by Thom Rainer, I can only quietly fist-pump to find out the post went viral and Rainer has published …
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