My First Ever Top Ten List
(at least on this blog) Top Ten Reasons You Should Join The First Impressions Team From the home office in Rougemont, NC 10. There’s nothing like the smell of freshly-printed worship guides, and you’ll...
Category: First Impressions
Why We Do What We Do
Below is the full text of an e-mail I received earlier this week from one of our Brier Creek AM Campus deacons, and I reprint it with his permission. Gang, this is the whole reason...
Make It Invisible
I’ve mentioned here before that I’m a fan of Joseph Michelli’s podcast, The Starbucks Experience (he’s also the author of a best-selling book by the same title). On a recent episode, he talked about the...
Steve Gets It
Last week on the big TenneBama vaca, I went to one of the three restaurants in my hometown (And no, I’m not joking…there are three: a Mexican joint, a barbecue joint, and a place with...
Coming Soon To A Campus Near You
As you know by now, this fall we’re adding a 12:30 service and a 10:45 overflow service to the Brier Creek AM Campus. With those additions come a huge need to beef up our First...
Reasons I Love My Church, #216:
At the First Time Guest Tent last Sunday, a guest filled out one of our info cards. At the bottom of the card, we always ask this question: “How did you hear about the Summit?”...
A First Impressions Primer, Part 2
In yesterday’s post we started to answer a question from Doug in Michigan. Read on for part 2 of that discussion. Oh, and happy 200th post, Connective Tissue readers. Our FIT has one driving mission,...
A First Impressions Primer
I’m continuously amazed at the random people who show up in the comments section of this blog. It’s like when Norah Jones drops in at Sesame Street to sing about the letter “Y” with Elmo…yes it’s very...
The Hospitality Culture
Summit Church, you were paid one of the highest compliments last weekend that I can think of in terms of first impressions. As many of you know, we hosted the Re:Sound worship event at the...
Be. Aggressive. Be, Be Aggressive
Anybody else have that cheer at your high school? That might have been my second-to-least favorite cheer that our cheerleading squad had, coming in only after “It’s hot, it’s hot, it’s hot in here…there must...
