W.O.W. (Website of the Week)
This week's W.O.W. comes to you in the category of a website that is growing on me. The title initially drew me to the site when I saw it listed in the blogroll of another site I frequent. It's really aimed at people in church administration, I think. But, what I find is that they offer some thought provocation on the main page that may interest others, and that there are often some more little gems in links and such if you spend a few minutes poking around. So, give Church Marketing Sucks a look and let me know what you think.
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4 Comments:
... And I thought I was the only one ...
The "Church Growth" movement was taking off and huge when I was in college and grad school. Honestly, it made me kinda ill.
Yes, I believe that any and every reputable endeavor can and should be brought to bear to praise Jesus and honor our God. But it seemed just too much to reduce Christ to "talking points". To run stats on the "top 10 churches". Telling pastors what worked and what didn't based on stats and focus groups.
What of the Holy Spirit doing a new thing?
And isn't Church Growth a matter of God grafting in believers? Or is that just my Reformed bias?
Rgardless, Church Marketing does indeed create a large area of negative pressure... and in my mind isn't at all what His people should be doing.
D--
By Higher Up, Further In, at 9/26/2006 11:47 AM
A slight alteration .... as always, I shot from the lip...
Marketing is vitally important, IF we mean by marketing the communication of a solution to the need of the "consumer".
That's my fave definition of marketing.
Too often, though, in biz as well as in politics and our faith, it's the need of the consumer that defines the message and product, regardless of what the truth of the product is ...
In other words, the consumer drives and the result is mush. I mean, c'mon, how many soda brands do we REALLY NEED? How many detergents does Procter and Gamble really need? How many messages does a politician really NEED to espouse??
Truth is truth and in the church Jesus is our truth. We do not change Jesus or His message to us uniquely to attract people. But with Paul, we work to be Jews to the Jews, Greeks to the Greeks.
In other words, we learn the culture and relate culturally...
Still a topic floating around in my brain, can you tell?
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By Higher Up, Further In, at 9/26/2006 12:17 PM
Following links off of this site I stumbled across this:
www.alpha.org
This has always been the vision of my heart... good to see somebody doing it.
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By Higher Up, Further In, at 9/26/2006 3:59 PM
so i know this doesn't apply but I get this weekly youth min e-mail with a bunch of links on it and check this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE_PFpWPQ5Y
looks like fluffy has some competition...
By amanda, at 9/26/2006 6:05 PM
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