My wife and I visited 52 churches in a year. Then we attended a bunch more. Here is what we learned.
Our Past Doesn’t Need to Define Our Future 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 #32. Our experience at this church was positive, and I’m excited for their future. There is more to it, however. Here is their […]
Be the Church Where Visitors Come Back 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 #31. This church pursued excellence in their service, with the effective use of technology and the professionalism of those who led us. Their example […]
Avoid Creative Marketing for Your 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 #30. We also attended Sunday school at this church, the only time we did so on our sojourn. The problem was that we didn’t intend […]
A Laity Led Church Service 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 #29. With their minister gone, church members lead us in the service, the entire service. They don’t need paid staff or a guest speaker to conduct […]
Embracing Tradition and Worship Ritual 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 #28. Steeped in ritual resulting from centuries of carefully protected tradition, the spiritual mystery of this tiny liturgical church presented me with an enigma I’m yet […]
Physical Worship from a Pure Heart 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 #27. I thoroughly enjoyed the worship time at this church. The worship of the song leaders was pure and ushered me into the presence of […]
Embrace Active Worship 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 #26. Beyond their worship of God and approach to him, two other things stood out about this minority congregation. First, the kids were an active presence during the […]
A Church Doesn’t Need Their Own Space 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 #25. I praised this congregation for not having a church building. Instead they rented space on Sunday for their services. That meant the money […]
A Traditional, Friendly Congregation 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 #24. The people at this traditional church were friendly, much friendlier than most. The message was good and gave me something to contemplate, but it was the […]
Don’t Hold a Church Business Meeting After the Service 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 #23. It’s challenging to get members to attend a church business meeting during the week, as it requires an extra trip to […]