Practical Church

What can we do to help create a culture of singing at our churches?

Welcome to welcome to episode 90 of Practical Church Planting. You can watch the episode below, or subscribe to the podcast and never miss an episode.

If you are a church or ministry leader, you undoubtedly would love to see your church full of people who are engaging in worship. The good news is that there are things we can do to help our people sing. In this episode, we discuss these 7 tips in detail:

• Having genuine band members
• Limit the number of songs in your rotation
• Programmatic worship hinders singing worship
• Pick songs that have easy melodies to sing
• Pick songs that go well with the sermon
• Don't put too many songs in your service
• Keep the songs your church likes to sing

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What should you think about when buying a camera for your church?

Welcome to welcome to episode 89 of Practical Church Planting. You can watch the episode below, or subscribe to the podcast and never miss an episode.

If you're a church plant or a smaller church with a small budget, how do you go about finding a camera you can use for pictures and/or videos? In this episode, we talk about four things in particular for you to consider.

• Price point
• What are you buying it for?
• What other equipment will you need?
• What else can you use it for?

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How can we preach in a way that connects with people who aren't sure what they believe about God?

Welcome to welcome to episode 88 of Practical Church Planting.

How can we preach in a way that engages and invites seekers and those who are not Christians to listen and follow along? In this episode, we give 7 tips for doing just that. We discuss:

• Always qualify Biblical context and characters
• Explain Biblical words
• Use stories/humor/illustrations
• Tell them where to find the Biblical text you are preaching from
• Acknowledge that they are present
• Answer questions you know they are asking
• Be honest about your weaknesses

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What should you do to make sure a first time guest doesn't return?

Welcome to welcome to episode 87 of Practical Church Planting.

We all want first time guests to return. We know that when a new person returns and gets connected, that is when life change can really happen. We also know that not every new guest will return. However, sometimes people don't return for reasons we can control. So in this episode, we share 7 ways to ensure first time guests won't return to help us think through whether or not we have some changes we need to make. We discuss:

• Having no one serving in the parking lot
• Having a bad kids check in process
• Naming people from stage
• Going way over time
• Not acknowledging new guests
• Assuming everyone knows the Bible
• Preaching as if no non-believers are in the room.

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How can you make the transitions in your service go smoother?

Welcome to welcome to episode 86 of Practical Church Planting.

Every service has transitions. Transitions between songs, announcements, the sermon, videos, etc. The good news is that they don't have to be awkward. In this episode, we discuss these five tips to help your service transitions go smoother:

• Talk through your service and your transitions
• Do a pre-service run through
• Practice your transitions again if there is a mistake
• Don't point out awkward transitions
• Avoid silent transitions

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Easter is one of the largest attended Sundays of the year for churches. What are you going to do to invite new guests back?

Welcome to welcome to episode 85 of Practical Church Planting. Many people who don't normally attend or take part in a church will do so on Easter, so what is your church going to do to invite them to return for more than just one Sunday. In this episode, we discuss these six tips:

• Actually inviting them back
• Mention your next series
• Give out invites to your next series
• Don't over-emphasize Easter Sunday
• Have a follow-up plan before Easter arrives
• Give them a tour

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Anniversary services should be celebrated. Here are a few ways you can do it.

Welcome to welcome to episode 84 of Practical Church Planting. You can watch the episode below, or subscribe to the podcast and never miss an episode.

Whether it's your first anniversary as a church or your 100th, anniversary services are worth celebrating! They are also a great way to add special elements to make the service a little different. In this episode, we share six things you can do in particular to make your anniversary service unique.

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What are some pitfalls that stop churches from launching well?

Welcome to welcome to episode 83 of Practical Church Planting. You can watch the episode below, or subscribe to the podcast and never miss an episode.

In the past 3-4 years since I (Dylan) began the journey of launching New City Church, I've connected with a lot of hopeful church planters. Some that are leading churches that eventually launched and are faithfully impacting their communities, and some that weren't able to get off the ground.

Now to be clear, everything is under God's control. You could be the best leader, speaker, and disciple maker in the world, but if God doesn't move, nothing is going to happen. When I look at how New City came to be, all I can do is marvel at the many things God did that none of us can take any credit for.

With that said, I have noticed a few reasons why some church plants don't make it off the ground, so in this episode, we discuss four reasons in particular.

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Want more people to show up on time for your services? Here are some things you can do.

Welcome to welcome to episode 82 of Practical Church Planting.

It can be hard and discouraging to begin a service with few people in the room. While there will always be latecomers, in this episode we want to share five tips on how you decrease the number of late arrives at your church.

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Sometimes we need to hear what we don't want to hear.

Welcome to welcome to episode 81 of Practical Church Planting.

In this episode, we share some thoughts on things we see churches do that aren't a fan of. To be sure, these are simply our opinions and there aren't wrong, we just think it would be better to not do them. See if you agree or disagree with our eight opinions in this episode.

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