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🗓️ 21 May 2024
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UnSeminary's Rich Birch returns to the podcast to talk about what growing churches are doing right now, the first 100 days of a new attender's journey at your church, whether to live stream or not live stream your services, and how to create a compelling invite culture at your church.
If you're looking for a conversation about practical church growth, this is it!
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TIMESTAMPS
Church growth trends and diversity (00:07:21)
Increasing Diversity in Churches (00:15:02)
The Impact of Diversity on Church Attendance (00:19:39)
Streamlining Newcomer Pathways (00:21:09)
The 100-Day Connection Window (00:22:07)
The Shift from Foyer to Online Engagement (00:24:46)
Creating Accessible Encounters (00:26:13)
Building Community Spaces (00:29:37)
Challenges of engaging online attendees (00:31:18)
Impact of church decisions on culture engagement (00:35:11)
Building a Compelling Volunteer Experience (00:44:51)
Understanding the Diffusion of Innovation Curve (00:45:42)
Equipping People for Invite Culture (00:46:33)
Strategies for Creating an Invite Culture (00:49:28)
Leveraging Shareable Weekend Teaching (00:52:41)
Strategic use of events and gimmicks (01:04:50)
Differentiating Sundays (01:11:28)
The invite culture litmus test (01:13:26)
Leveraging time change Sunday (01:16:28)
Building strategies around data (01:17:14)
Unlocking invite culture (01:18:03)
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0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
0:02.9 | I love my Reform Brothers and Sisters, mostly Reform Brothers, that's a little bit of a dig |
0:07.4 | at them, but they, you know, I've had them say, like, you know, we've had conversations around invite culture and these are |
0:14.2 | private conversations they're definitely having me into their church to talk |
0:16.4 | about these things they're not telling other people that I'm there and you know |
0:19.7 | church leaders will say they'll be like man if I if other church guys in my network were to hear |
0:25.0 | we were talking about this stuff they would shake their head because like we don't |
0:28.9 | want anything to do with attractional and I would say listen you are |
0:31.7 | attractional you don't think you are, but you are. |
0:35.0 | Like, you're in a building, you have a sign outside your door, you talk about, you have actual music, |
0:41.0 | you vacuum your carpets on Sunday morning those are all |
0:45.3 | attractional church things you're those are all gimmicks if someone else's |
0:49.0 | gimmick would know why do you have to clean your church why do you have to paint it |
0:52.4 | why do you have to have lights in a band? That's all gimmicky. |
0:54.4 | No, you chose to do those things because you know people will tell their friends about them. |
0:58.6 | Now, you might not want to do monster truck that's fine I get that I totally |
1:02.6 | understand you don't want to drop eggs out of a out of a helicopter I get that but |
1:06.2 | what are what can you do that your people will tell their friends about Welcome to the Carrie New Hoff Leadership Podcast, it's Carrie here and I hope our time |
1:18.2 | together today helps you thrive in life and leadership. Well we got Rich Birch back on the podcast man you guys love |
1:25.0 | Rich every time it comes on you listen you share and we're going to talk about |
1:30.0 | what growing churches are doing right now. |
1:33.0 | Rich has got a unique pulse on this studying the top 100 fastest growing churches. |
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