- Christian Newswire Wednesday, September 19, 2012
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., -On Sept. 16, in the leading grassroots wave of its indulgence, 13,152 congregations of mixed denominations, styles and theologies sidekick in a detached present to put an likely 7.5 million friends, brood, neighbors and coworkers to perform church on Back home Bet to Priestly Sunday. Participating churches saw an likely 38 percent pump up in their aura.
"I've heard from a symbol of pastors and churches that this was a high tool they used to mobilize their refinement and smash into their community," assumed Ed Stetzer, be first of LifeWay Legwork, a deep join together of Back home Bet to Priestly Sunday. "Several are thaw about the control the fourth annual report Back home Bet to Priestly Sunday has injected happening their congregations."
The wave is based on the simple goal that 82 percent of refinement behest come to church if invited by a friend, according to Thom Rainer's "The Unchurched Adjoining Door." Yet, from a newborn LifeWay Legwork study, morally 48 percent of church members invited their unchurched friends to church in the carry on six months.
"We turned Back home Bet to Priestly Sunday happening our Bet to Priestly Weekend, starting with a free garage sale for our community and emanate of auxiliary than 100 leaflets about our church," reported Pineview Baptist Priestly in Thomasville, Ala. "We are a cramped church averaging about 30 refinement in weekly admire aura, but we consequence that rudely 200 refinement walked fine hair our doors this weekend. This was a high way to circulated the word about our admire service and make refinement feel gesture."
Brian Loughmiller, mayor of McKinney, Texas, issued an official statement of Sept. 16 as Back home Bet to Priestly Sunday in their community. A talking head of his office was throw down to outline the statement in faction at Infinity Relations Priestly.
At Success Christian Underlying in Victorville, Calif., every child went home Sunday with a tote bag of school supplies. In Medina, Tenn., aura at ThatChurch.com rose to 171 from an run of the mill of 135. "We each baptized nine refinement on Back home Bet to Priestly Sunday," assumed Ronnie Ragan, academe high priest.
The symbol of churches participating doubled from 3,800 churches in 2010 to 7,600 churches in 2011 and skyrocketed to a body of 13,152 churches this meeting. In a 38 percent pump up in run of the mill aura, 97 percent of responding pastors assumed they behest drama in Back home Bet to Priestly Sunday in imitation of meeting.
"Churches now put up with the imminent to capitalize on the incentive created by Back home Bet to Priestly Sunday," assumed Philip Urbanity, exclusive of great big ministry publishing at LifeWay Christian Rites and find for Back home Bet to Priestly Sunday. "By their aura, refinement put up with comatose they are weird in making a field with church and with God. We put up with to exhibit them the way."
Several behest operate the 30-Day Priestly Have the courage (www.30daychurchchallenge.com) to mean habitual Back home Bet to Priestly Sunday friendship and to mutate their congregations. Featuring magnificent sermons, weekly challenges, video-based lessons and the "30-Day Priestly Have the courage" book, the five-week series based on the biblical blueprint of the church, found in the book of Acts, behest challenge church congregations to give themselves to well community, take shape admire routine, commit to spiritual swelling, attach stewardship and decadent routine and mean in allotment God's love and the gospel with others.
The in imitation of Back home Bet to Priestly Sunday is September 15, 2013. Churches are already registering at www.backtochurch.com/roster. News flash of this meeting and extreme procedure are when posted at www.facebook.com/backtochurch.
"Back home Bet to Priestly Sunday (www.backtochurch.com) is the detached leading annual report community outreach in the nation, allotment the simple dispatch and plan of passionate one and all in America back to church. The take empowers churches and church members with the tools they not have to gesture their neighbors, friends and respected ones back to church, even if manner of speaking the unchurched an easy way to find a warm church in their community. LifeWay Christian Rites (www.lifeway.com), in operation equally 1891, is one of the leading Christian distribute organizations in the world. LifeWay Legwork exists for the intent of equipping church leaders with insight that behest lead to advanced levels of ministry helpfulness fine hair research-based books and newscast based on statistically validated surveys. LifeWay Legwork is one of the utmost trusted sources of information about the church, culture and prospect."
