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Should the church do telemarketing?

This morning I was at home taking some time off after missing my off day over the weekend.  It was about 10:30 AM when my phone rang.  When I picked it up there was a slight delay that clued me into the fact that a recoreded message was coming.
Sure enough, this is what I heard. [...]

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Where the churches are

When reading through my Bloglines (Don’t know about Bloglines? See this post) account this afternoon I stumbled onto this map. I thought it was interesting and pass it on to you.
It is a map of where the various denominations are concentrated. I thought it was quite interesting.
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The growing popularity of church discipline

From the Wall Street Journal Online…
On a quiet Sunday morning in June, as worshippers settled into the pews at Allen Baptist Church in southwestern Michigan, Pastor Jason Burrick grabbed his cellphone and dialed 911. When a dispatcher answered, the preacher said a former congregant was in the sanctuary. “And we need to, um, have her [...]

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Churches and Web 2.0


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How the Internet is changing churches


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