Sunday By Design

Growing churches are not doing seven brilliant things. They are doing the same seven small things, every week, until those small things become the standard.

Visit enough growing churches and the surprising part is how unremarkable the list is. The service starts when it says it will and ends when it says it will. The order does not change from week to week. The first five minutes are scripted and rehearsed. A guest cannot leave the building without being known. There …