Have High Expectations 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 #42. I carried high expectations for this church, but I experienced a disappointing day when we visited. What they delivered fell far short of what I anticipated I […]
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 […]