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Making Dry Church Services Come To Life

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Why is it that in some churches, meeting with the creator of the universe is often a boring showcase for bad music, inept preaching and poor taste? Listed are 9 perspectives that can enhance the effectiveness of your services.

  1. Put yourself in the congregation’s shoes. Pastor, how long has it been since you just sat in the congregation? How often do you really try to identify with the needs, hopes and dreams of those in your congregation?
  2. Tell stories. Storytelling was Jesus’ primary method of teaching. He put the most profound concepts into simple and compelling stores that captivated people and changed their lives. Never telling a story is a prescription for putting people to sleep.
  3. Question everything. Why do you take up the offering the same way each week? Why do you always sing the same hymn of invitation?
  4. Find some fresh jokes-or don’t use any. How many of you would rather be here in church than in the finest hospital in town? Please discard your moth-eaten jokes. Otherwise your congregation will start laughing out of pity, not humor.
  5. Go beyond your trusty old sermons of the past. Yes it’s nice to have some standby messages you can rely on. But the danger is that the more you preach the same sermon, the more difficult it is to present it with conviction, originality and excitement.
  6. Understand and address the surrounding culture. Jesus understood the culture that He ministered in.
  7. Know your audience. It is important to make sure your services are appropriately targeted to the kind of people you are trying to reach.
  8. Keep learning. Some pastors have fallen into the trap of anti-intellectualism.
  9. Be open to the Spirit. God’s sovereign move always brings a response.

 

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