Clint Walker

“Peter Brown concludes: Constantine’s “conversion” was a very “Roman” conversion . . . Worship of the Christian God had brought prosperity upon himself and would bring prosperity upon the empire . . . He was over 40 and an experienced politician when he finally declared himself a Christian. He had had time to take the measure of the new religion and the difficulties which emperors had experienced in suppressing it. He decided that Christianity was a religion fit for a new empire. 66”
― Stuart Murray, Post-Christendom: Church and Mission in a Strange New World

“What led you to visit our church? The question began as an innocent conversation starter. I ask guests questions about themselves and their families. I do my best to get to know them, and to make the conversation about them. But, at some point, my curiosity gets the best of me. Out of the dozens of churches near them, what was the main factor that prompted them to try our church? The answer still surprises me. “We visited the church’s website.” We now hear that response from approximately seven out of ten first-time guests. Guests use Google to search for local churches, and they look at different church websites. They see the church sign driving by, and decided to look up the website. They hear a conversation about the church, and check it out by visiting the website.”
― Thom S. Rainer, Becoming a Welcoming Church

“Good church signage is a statement of your church’s hospitality. It means you are expecting guests; and it means you desire for guests to come to your church.”
― Thom S. Rainer, Becoming a Welcoming Church

“Post-Christendom is the culture that emerges as the Christian faith loses coherence within a society that has been definitively shaped by the Christian story and as the institutions that have been developed to express Christian convictions decline in influence.”
― Stuart Murray, Post-Christendom: Church and Mission in a Strange New World