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Uses and Cautions of Marketing as a Church Growth Tool
Advocates of church marketing assert that every church markets. Sunday newsletters, church signs, church letterheads and visitation of newcomers are all marketing tools. The question is whether such marketing is intentional and likely to be productive, or haphazard and unfocuse
The Shaping of Things Now: Questions of Emerging Churches
The term ‘emerging church’ has been hotly debated. Some mainstream churches say ‘what are you doing that we are not?’ and some emerging churches resent the implication that they are still ‘emerging’ into being a real church. 3 But ‘emerging’ describes something that is changing and evolving rather than fixed in one place. The label recognizes that such churches are emerging from a modern into a postmodern framework, in a post-Christendom era, in a digital age, for a post-colonial era. Interestingly, it is a term that has been used to describe the early church in the first century, since that was the time the church’s leadership, worship and mission practices evolved. Arguably, therefore, emerging church is an appropriate term to use for churches today that are evolving for a new era
Book Review: Promise and Peril: Understanding and Managing Change and Conflict in Congregations by David R. Brubaker
The Shaping of Things Now: Questions of Emerging Churches
The term ‘emerging church’ has been hotly debated. Some mainstream churches say ‘what are you doing that we are not?’ and some emerging churches resent the implication that they are still ‘emerging’ into being a real church. 3 But ‘emerging’ describes something that is changing and evolving rather than fixed in one place. The label recognizes that such churches are emerging from a modern into a postmodern framework, in a post-Christendom era, in a digital age, for a post-colonial era. Interestingly, it is a term that has been used to describe the early church in the first century, since that was the time the church’s leadership, worship and mission practices evolved. Arguably, therefore, emerging church is an appropriate term to use for churches today that are evolving for a new era
Uses and Cautions of Marketing as a Church Growth Tool
Advocates of church marketing assert that every church markets. Sunday newsletters, church signs, church letterheads and visitation of newcomers are all marketing tools. The question is whether such marketing is intentional and likely to be productive, or haphazard and unfocuse
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