Effective Church Communications
Effective Church Communications provides Timeless Strategy and Biblical Inspiration to help churches create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission
Following the webinar on: How to Create and use a church communication survey, a number of you asked for the PowerPoint files so you could present this to your church leadership. In the attached ZIP file is the PowerPoint Presentation and the MS Publisher files. Both are editable.
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Click here to download the file.
In the Apostle Paul's farewell to the Ephesian elders, he gives us a summary of the responsibilities of leaders in church that also applies to those who lead in church communication:
For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God. 28Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. 29I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. 30Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. 31So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears. Acts 20-27-31
Though Paul shares a number of challenges we can apply in our work as church communicators, one of them is especially difficult to apply:
As we communicate God's messages to his church, we need to make certain we are taking time to communicate all of it, the difficult parts as well as the more pleasant and encouraging ones.
We don't seem to have trouble communicating the upbeat and the positive, quoting God's promises and blessings and we should do that. Those messages alone, however are not the whole will of God and if that is all we are communicating we will present a distorted picture of the Christian message.
It's easy to forget in the midst of lots of hard work and deadlines the real importance of your work, but what you are doing literally changes the eternal destinies of people. I created the little Postcard pictured here for you to either download (Click here to download the PDF) or as a jpg image (click here to download the jpg). Please print it out and put it somewhere you can see it and be reminded. You can also use either one to create encouragements to other Administrative Assistants or Church Communicators.
This was originally done for Administrative Assistants Day, but I'm keeping it on the site because we always need encouragement.
Today may be lots of hard work, but in your future you will "shine like the stars forever!"
And why? Because your work brought lots of people to heaven with you.
Many blessings, prayers and love to all of you this Administrative Assistant's Day,
Yvon Prehn
A current conference advertises itself with this statement:
Constant change is necessary to reach our culture with the unchanging message of Jesus Christ.
Why?
On what basis?
It can't be on the basis of any kind of current marketing theory. Consider some of the most successful brands today:
Many time-honored brands have not changed their distinctive characteristics for years and they won't. They know that change would be deadly to their brand identity and profitability. There is nothing intrinsically good or beneficial about change. In fact, change can be a destructive and distracting—especially for churches. [Read more...]
