My wife and I visited 52 churches in a year. Then we attended a bunch more. Here is what we learned.
Virtual Church I’m doing research about online church for my next book about Online Church. I’ve also started writing, too, and am excited with what I have so far. Update: I’ve written and published the book. It is called Visiting Online Church and is now available everywhere from all major bookstores and outlets.
Consider Who You Interact with at Church With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #41. Aside from the usher, we had limited significant contact with the people at this church. (Shaking hands and saying “welcome” is not a […]
Invite Church Visitors to Sit with You With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #40. “Would you like to sit with us?” asks the young couple we meet as we head into the church facility. We’re excited for […]
The Value of Eating Together With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #39. Many churches share a meal or food after their service, but this one put a new twist on it: we head off to a restaurant, […]
Reaching Future Generations With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #38. So many elements of this church excite me: a message with substance, elements in the service that pointed me to the worship of God, significant community before […]
Make Sure Your Church is Clean and Looks Nice With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #37. This small church likes to sing, and they’ve built a strong community that cares for one another. However, this church stands […]
We are All Priests Through Jesus With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #36. We arrived at church only to learn they cancelled the service because their pastor had an emergency. Despite this, we hung around and talked […]
Update Your Church Practices With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #35. We thought we arrived early to this church, but it seemed the service had already started. Everyone was sitting down. People were singing. There were no […]
The Lifecycle of a Church With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #34. From a human standpoint, the future of this congregation is bleak. When we visited, eleven people showed up. In addition to my wife and me, […]
A Poor Church With our journey of visiting fifty-two churches over, I can reflect more on the complete experience. Today, I’ll add to my thoughts about Church #33. It seems the congregation of this rural church has little to be thankful for, at least from my perspective. Yet their service taught me the opposite. I’m […]