Six Ways a Church Failed the Guest Friendliness Test

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Podcast Episode #558

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Every church thinks they’re a guest friendly church. But as we discuss today, guest friendliness is not something at which every church excels.

Some highlights from today’s episode include:

  • Church signs need info on them, but there are really just three essentials: church name, worship times, website address.
  • If your church has a digital sign, you have to consider the length of the rotation of information.
  • Don’t think that “everyone knows ______” at your church because almost always, everyone doesn’t know.
  • Some churches aren’t just not guest friendly, they are also not guest desirous.

The six failures we discuss are:

  1. It had no website.
  2. No service times on sign.
  3. “Our church is always open.”
  4. “Everyone knows the times of our service.”
  5. Didn’t consider the impact of special events on guests.
  6. It failed to see the opportunities.

Resources mentioned in today’s podcast

Rainer on Leadership is a member of the LifeWay Leadership Podcast Network

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The Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting: Moving forward by not moving on

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The Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting: Moving forward by not moving on

A boy and his father at a vigil for the Gilroy victims

Note from Dr. Denison: While my wife and I are on vacation, our oldest son, Ryan, is writing The Daily Article. Ryan is an MDiv graduate of Truett Seminary currently completing his PhD in Church History. He has written The Daily Article in my absence in the past and was the co-author of our latest publication, How Does God See America? I am honored to share this ministry with him.

What more is there to say? 

The news is once again headlined by reports of a mass shooting, complete with essentially the same statements of remorse, promises of prayer, and debates about gun laws we’ve heard countless times before. 

As of this writing, details continue to emerge regarding the latest attack, this time at the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California. Three were killed, including a six-year-old boy and a thirteen-year-old girl, while another twelve were injured. Police also shot and killed the suspected shooter.

The gunman, who has since been identified but will remain unnamed in this article, bypassed security by entering the festival grounds via a nearby creek and then cutting a hole in the surrounding fence. 

He started shooting around 5:41 on Sunday evening, and, by the grace of God and the accuracy of festival security, stopped shooting less than a minute later.

Yet that was all the time it took to forever alter the lives of countless individuals. 

So, where do we go from here? 

Keep the focus on the people rather than the issues

We could spend this time debating our nation’s gun laws and what guidance we can find in Scripture. The former has been at the crux of most comments coming from those in the political sphere. And, while the latter is always helpful, we’ve been there before. 

We could look at the mental health aspects of the discussion. We could examine the degree to which the most sustainable…

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Jury finds Katy Perry’s ‘Dark Horse’ copied Christian rap song

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Jury finds Katy Perry’s ‘Dark Horse’ copied Christian rap song

The decision returned by a nine-member federal jury in a Los Angeles courtroom came five years after Marcus Gray and two co-authors first sued alleging Dark Horse stole from Joyful Noise, a song Gray released under the stage name Flame.

The case now goes to a penalty phase, where the jury will decide how much the plaintiffs are owed for copyright infringement.

 

 

Gray’s lawyers argued that the beat and instrumental line featured through nearly half of Dark Horse are substantially similar to those of Joyful Noise.

Dark Horse, a hybrid of pop, trap and hip-hop sounds that was the third single of Perry’s 2013 album Prism, spent four weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 in early 2014, and earned Perry a Grammy nomination.

Perry’s lawyers argued the song sections in question represent the kind of simple musical elements that if found to be subject to copyright would hurt music and all songwriters.

“They’re trying to own basic building blocks of music, the alphabet of music that should be available to everyone,” Perry’s lawyer Christine Lepera said during closing arguments.

Perry and the song’s co-authors, including her producer Dr Luke, testified during the seven-day trial that none of them had heard the song or heard of Gray before the lawsuit, nor did they listen to Christian music.

Gray’s lawyers had only to demonstrate, however, that Joyful Noise had wide…

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