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June 12, 2006

The Business of the Church

Sales Baptisms are down so why not try something new? How about a contemporary service:

"I didn't want it, didn't like it ... knew I wouldn't like it," Lincoln said of adding a contemporary service at his church in 2000. "I decided I'd never get these people (lobbying for contemporary worship) to shut up."

Lincoln said he still doesn't like contemporary worship, but has come to view it as a way of letting his church cast a net that "brings up fish of every kind - and lets God sort them out."

Research your market, [Ronnie Floyd] said. Know whether you're ahead of or behind the growth curve. "High-risk innovations are necessary," he said. "Consumers determine strategy."

And the strategy should not matter, so long as it brings new members into the church, [Thom Rainer of the Southern Theological Baptist Seminary] said.

Posted by calvin at June 12, 2006 07:14 PM

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