It’s that time of year again: fall (or Autumn, if you consider yourself better than the rest of us). The time when hipsters break out their slightly-less-ironic scarves, pumpkin flavoring seeps into everything, and churches...
Here on the ol’ blog, I talk a lot about the mechanics of hospitality: systems, structures, and staffing that takes a biblical virtue and puts it together on an institutional level. But perhaps more important...
In case you missed the service this weekend, here’s the 2:38 recap of one of the most fun weekends we’ve experienced in a while.
I recognized that moment immediately yesterday. It was the same moment I’d experienced two years prior. It was the experience of seeing hundreds of people leave their seats, walk the concourse, take the steps, head to a...
Your Theology Doesn’t Matter (via @BenReed, HT @AlanPace). Simply put? Ben nails it. If you want to make loyal “customers,” (people who don’t just show up once, but come back regularly) that doesn’t start in the...
As I type, we are eleven days, one hour, and twenty minutes from the moment where the gates swing open and Church at the Ballpark ’13 goes into full gear. So today’s question:Â Who are you...
What. A. Weekend. We had a Small Groups Conference, College Leadership Retreat, and the largest Starting Point in the history of the Summit. We launched four new service times at two different campuses, on-boarded a...
A bit of backstory: at the church where I serve, our Brier Creek Campus has a venue that opens during the fall and spring, our peak attendance times. We call it “BC South,” and it’s...
It seems that everybody has a first time guest horror story. You show up at a church for the first time and you’re either put on the spot, ignored, or confused. People don’t talk to...
There’s a “Keller Clause” in the contract of all Summit employees. Because he and our lead pastor are besties, we have to quote Keller roughly every 20 minutes, or our tithing rate goes up significantly....
