Sorry for the title. My daughter is officially obsessed with Star Wars, so everything is becoming Star Wars related these days. Most Pastors dread the “Summer Slump”. Typically, this is when giving and attendance fluctuate the most in a given year. Yet here’s what I have learned over the last 10 years: 1. Summer is not as bad as people make it out to be 2. You don’t have to take as big of an attendance hit (I’ll talk about in depth later) 3. With planning, you can eliminate the giving slump (More on that later) 4. The key to … Read More
Sunday Stuff
– Great day at Calvary! – I taught Romans 3. I can’t believe I decided to teach the entire chapter in 1 shot. File that under: questionable decision. – I know I went long today. I’m sure I’ll hear about it tomorrow 🙂 – I sounded like a staunch Calvinist today as I talked about “No one seeks God”. Instead God is seeking us. If that bugs you, wait until I teach Romans 10 and talk about “Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved”. I’ll be called a flaming Arminian. For the record, I’m neither. – … Read More
Friday Rewind
Here’s a quick review of the posts this week: Sunday – (Sunday Stuff) I talked about our service on Sunday and some thought on Senior Pastors preaching on Mother’s day Monday – (New Resource) We released a brand new resource called, “Ministering in the Hard Places”. Tuesday – (Who are you Listening to?) In this post, I talked about the 3 types of people we can listen to and what each bring to the table Wednesday – (Is it Wrong to Target Christians?) In this post guest blogger Bill LaMorey talked about one way to target people when you’re ministering … Read More
Is it Wrong to Target Christians?
This is a guest post by my good friend Bill LaMorey, Pastor of Calvary Fellowship in West Hartford, CT… When I left South Florida and returned to my home state of Connecticut to plant Calvary Fellowship in West Hartford, I had a solid conviction: “We’re going after lost people and we aren’t interested in reaching Christians.” My thinking has expanded on this point! Let me explain. The reason I didn’t want to go after Christians is we wanted to catch fish, not swap sheep. I felt there was no value added to God’s kingdom by stealing sheep from already churched … Read More
Welcome to the new Bobfranquiz.net!
Welcome to the new bobfranquiz.net! Here’s a couple of features that I think you’re going to enjoy: 1. There’s over $100 worth of free stuff you can get on the right hand side of the blog. —–> 2. There’s a free report on how to double your guests using Facebook on the right hand side of the blog. ——> 3. There’s a search feature at the bottom of the page that will search any post I’ve written over the last 6 years. 4. There’s a directory by category at the top of the page 5. There’s a new “About me” … Read More
Sunday Stuff… (Father’s Day Edition)
– Great day today at Calvary! – We kicked off our "ReThink" series in Ephesians by covering Ephesians 1:1-14 – I talked about knowing God as your Father. – People were very moved by the message. I was happy to see God working in the lives of people. – As much as I love teaching, I'm glad to have the next 2 Sundays off from writing messages. – Next Sunday, Don Richardson (Author of the best selling book "The Peace Child") is going to be at all services at Calvary. – I'm bummed that I'm missing him, but happy that … Read More
Direct Mail Questions (Part 1)
I've gotten a lot of response based on my newest resource, "21st Century Outreach Strategies". So what I'm doing on the blog this week is answering the questions that come up about direct mail. Here's one that people ask that's critical to your direct mail success: When should direct mail show up and how can I ensure that it shows up on time? You can have the best direct mail piece in the world, but if it shows up late it isn't going to help you. Generally speaking, people should get your direct mail piece a week before your … Read More
Zero to Sixty on Amazon.com!
It took a while, but Amazon finally got their act together and posted my new book Zero to Sixty: 60 principles and practices for leading a growing church. To all of you who emailed me looking for the book on Amazon.com specifially, thanks for your patience. So officially, you can now get Zero to Sixty in all of these places: Amazon.com has it here Barnes and Noble has it here Books-a-Million has it here ChristianBooksBible.com has it here ChurchStrategies.com has it here If you want to get the book for the lowest price, go to www.church-strategies.com and during the check out, use the coupon code "twitter" … Read More
Q &A: What’s the Biggest Mistake Churches Make in Their By-Laws?
The biggest mistake churches make in their by-laws is giving too much control to the wrong group of people. Too many church planters begin their churches by adopting the same by-laws their sending church had. This can be a great blessing if you've got the right by-laws, but can also be deadly to the health of your church if they are the wrong by-laws. There's nothing in the Bible that says we should have congregational voting. Why churches do it escapes me. If you're a church that reaches unchurched people, here's what they are expecting: for the leaders of the … Read More
Last call! Zero to Sixty in Atlanta!
If you live in I'm going to be leading a Zero to Sixty seminar in Atlanta on April 2nd (that's this Thursday!) from 9AM-Noon. Avalon Church (1467 HWY 20 West McDonough, GA) is being kind enough to host us for the event. I'm looking forward to seeing some of my Atlanta friends and training some Pastors who want to take their leadership to the next level. The details for the event are here. Also, I'm going to be giving away free copies of Zero to Sixty to the first 20 30 people who register. This is a great opportunity to bring … Read More
