Some of you have seen this already, but The Fearsome Pirate has published a wonderful list of ways to see your church grow. Please be aware that there is repeated use of the word "crap".
Stop preaching crappy sermons. Quit wasting people's time with your retarded stories, personal anecdotes, and theological hobby-horses.
Get rid of the prayer announcer.
Your praise band sucks. Get rid of it. Also, fire your "worship pastor".
You have some crap hymns in your hymnal. Don't sing them.
Quit acting like such a fruit up there. When you pretend you're cool, you actually look like a fruit. Even if you're non-liturgical, trust me, pastors are not cool. All the stools, goatees, and emo glasses in the world cannot make the preaching office cool.
They're supposed to be announcements, not Chinese Water Torture.
Teach stuff. Maybe people would start coming if they were actually learning things instead of just hanging out, hearing some idiotic presentation, or listening to the teacher ride a hobby horse.
Get to know your people and care about them. If you do all that other crap, but you don't give a crap about your people, it all goes to crap.
Read the whole thing here, and a follow-up post here.
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