{"id":459,"date":"2020-03-28T20:58:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T20:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theme.visualmodo.com\/nonprofit\/?p=459"},"modified":"2020-03-31T01:45:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T01:45:41","slug":"how-to-connect-people-to-your-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theme.visualmodo.com\/church\/how-to-connect-people-to-your-church\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Connect People to Your Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are lots of different people that walk through church doors on a Sunday morning. Someone may walk through your doors that have never heard the gospel before. Or someone who has always hated and had negative perceptions of the local church. Then, you also have familiar faces that, almost literally, light up the building when they walk into the room. They\u2019re your rockstar volunteers. They add to the health and growth of your church.<\/p>\n

And your regular attenders, who are in all different places in their life and faith. A disconnected church leads to disconnected people, who will eventually fizzle out or become attendees that show up for the important holidays or once a month and aren\u2019t seen from again. But a church with integral members who add to the lifeblood of the church\u2014those connections will produce church growth and health and help build the Kingdom of God. We all want these thriving people to add to the ministry of our local church. So\u2014how do you connect such diverse people to your local church?<\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

1. Define what connection is.<\/h2>\n

To start, if you want people to get connected to your church\u2014you have to decide what that looks like. Is it getting people in a small group? Giving? Regular Sunday attendance? For anyone wrestling with what it means to be the church\u2014not just go to church.<\/p>\n

Buy from church leaders There are endless possibilities and every church might have a different answer. But it\u2019s important to figure this out, so you can tangibly measure how many people are connecting to your church.<\/p>\n

2. Give the Sunday service you’re all.<\/h2>\n

Your high-capacity volunteers may show up to Bible studies, youth or other church events in the middle of the week, but it is likely that your newer crowd will not.<\/p>\n

Take advantage of the fact that the Sunday service experience is a place where most of your church members will be at all at one time. Seasoned and new believers alike. This isn\u2019t the time to give this 50 percent. When looking at your Sundays, ask yourself:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Is this the best our service can be?<\/li>\n
  2. What can we do to improve our music time? What kind of songs should we play? Are they theologically sound?<\/li>\n
  3. Do they fit our culture?<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. How do we want to approach announcements? How much time do we allow for that?<\/li>\n
  5. What should the structure of the hour-long service look like?<\/li>\n
  6. How will we use the media?<\/li>\n
  7. What system do we have for new guests? And for regular attenders?<\/li>\n
  8. We have several evaluation forms with Church Fuel\u2019s resource library if you\u2019re interested in a more detailed evaluation of your Sunday service.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    \n

    3. Create a clear connection process.<\/h2>\n

    We talked a little bit about\u00a0what connection means. It is so much more than having someone commit to regularly attending. That\u2019s just dead weight. Most of us want people to engage with our churches in some sort of way. This could look like joining a small group, committing to tithe regularly or serving on a team.<\/p>\n

    But how do people know where to start? One of our favorite\u00a0connection pipelines we\u2019ve seen is City Church in Tallahassee, Fla. There is a clear process in which new members go to a \u201cfirst look\u201d to meet some of the staff. Then, there\u2019s a more in-depth \u201c101\u201d class that presents the mission and vision of City Church. This gives new people, looking to get connected, the opportunity to hear about what groups there are, what teams to serve on and other ministry opportunities there are for them, and to figure out where their fit is. And at the following \u201c201\u201d class, they have opted with the option to become a member.<\/p>\n

    Every church structure does not have to look like this one. It\u2019s just a clear, thought-out system, and that makes it 10x easier for new people or people that have been around for a year to finally take the next step and become a part of their local church, rather than just a \u201cconsumer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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