Help with your church website

These days the website is the front door to any organization. This is especially true of the church. Does your church website need work? A lot of them do. This link may be a good place to start for a little help.

One a similar note... Read this quote:

Just look at church websites. How many of them have this picture of a perfect family with a blue sky background. They all look so nice in their polo shirts, and the kids all have straight teeth. It’s all just so lovely.

-Ivy Beckwith, minister to children and families at the Congregational Church of New Canaan, Connecticut

Is this true of us? Do we portray an image of perfection in the way that we display ourselves to the world? Maybe, maybe not. I'm not sure that we should portray sloppiness as the norm for the sake of allowing people to "be themselves" or feel comfortable, but certainly the we don't want to publicize a picture of ourselves that everyone knows does not correspond to reality.

Though I diverge from much of the theology that Leonard Sweet purports, I find this quote very accurate:

People will assume the worst about you and your church and still value you and even join your congregation-if they don’t see you dancing in denial about what you’ve been or dancing on the hot coals of fads and fashions trying to be something you’re not.”

-Leonard Sweet, E. Stanley Jones Professor of evangelism at Drew University

Point = be real, be authentic, be honest, be yourself - all cliches, but they are so for a reason... it's because those concepts are timeless in their truth.

(HT: Relevintage, Think Christian)