The Tully Principle of 52 Equal Sundays
Bill Tully’s principle of 52 equal Sundays strives to have powerful worship every Sunday of the year to best reach visitors at all times of year. After Easter, attention in…
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Bill Tully’s principle of 52 equal Sundays strives to have powerful worship every Sunday of the year to best reach visitors at all times of year. After Easter, attention in…
…to give up mailings, we limit them to two times a year, Easter and Christmas. 3. Don’t limit information to one venue. Once you have decided on the most effective…
…sure they are all right. Include students in your family’s holiday activities. Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter are hard times to be far away from home. Design a flier describing your…
…Eve services rival Easter in attendance, and the Christmas Eve offering is often the largest of the year. What has changed? Churches discovered that asking for money on Christmas Eve…
…blooms for Easter. What is not planted will not grow — nature is clear on this. And we should take it as a lesson for the church and all its…
…the middle. I encourage preachers to find more opportunities to acknowledge people who are here and there. I was at an Easter service and the pastor said, “I’m wearing my…
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