Articles for tag: Felt Needs

August 2, 2018

Christian Standard

A Fall Kickoff to Keep People Coming Back

By David Dummitt Back-to-school season is a natural time for people to create new routines and rhythms, which makes fall a strategic time to not only attract new people to your church, but also to encourage them to come back week after week. As we plan for fall, we should consider how to maximize our opportunity to connect with people in relevant ways that make them want to call our churches their churches. Although there’s no formula for introducing people to the church and weaving them into community, we can create enticing environments that meet felt needs, provide opportunities that

January 13, 2014

Christian Standard

Proclaiming Release: Captives Caught by “˜Felt Needs”

By T.R. Robertson Shortly after our arrival at the prison chapel, the two-way radios crackle with the announcement: “Release Christian Campus House to the chapel.” Within minutes a few dozen offenders, as we”re told to call them, come walking across the central prison yard. We actually call them by their first names. We make a point to learn and remember their names, since no one else here offers them that courtesy. The courts have mandated the prisoners” freedom to practice their chosen religion. The weekly chapel schedule is filled with a wide variety of offerings in 10 different “fully accommodated”

January 11, 2014

Christian Standard

Consuming Fire: Making Room for God

By Laura Buffington It”s absolutely right to consider congregational surveys, meet felt needs, and offer the crowd exactly what it wants. Jesus himself sometimes did this. But what can we learn from the times he did something entirely different? And how do we point church consumers toward the God who wants to consume them? When I was fresh out of seminary and brand new to church meetings, I had a hard time making a distinction between the two environments. In meetings about parking lot flow and service times, my mind was always wandering off to abstract questions about how traffic

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