4. Cover only one issue with each message.
Don’t do need a three-point or 30-point message. Do a single point message (more on that later this week). Reduce each week to a single point and make most of your series three to eight weeks.
Less than three weeks is not really a series. More than eight weeks and you’ll lose people’s attention. Covering one main idea per week makes a series far more memorable.
As is often said, the person who makes three points in a talk makes no points.
5. Title it with the invitation in mind.
This one’s key. If you title your series “5 Signs You’re an Emotional Disaster,” how on earth is someone who attends your church going to invite his friend to it?
So we called a series on love “Like It or Love It” and wrote it up this way:
What do you mean when you say you love someone? What should you mean? You say you love chicken wings, but you also love her. Can one emotion cover both situations? Where’s the line between liking and loving? We’ll explore Christianity’s radical teachings about love in a way that can change what you like, what you love and how you live.
So much easier to invite your friends to.
I hope these are helpful.
What are you learning about writing series for unchurched people?
