Services are better when they flow.
Dead time can kill the flow of the service.
If you have a special guest, does the singer wait to be introduced, then get up from the seat and walk to the platform while everyone in the church watches? You’re wasting time and making the service awkward. Tell the singer when to come and have them in place for the introduction if you do this sort of thing.
You will be amazed at how much better the service will flow. If you practice this with all transitions, your service will improve!
Improve the quality of the total morning experience.
First impressions do not begin with the call to worship (or whatever you may call your first song). First impressions begin the moment people drive into your parking lot.
Putting friendly people in the parking lot as greeters can improve people’s impression of your overall service. Teach people to expect visitors, to truly be welcoming when they arrive and to take people where they need to go rather than point.
Strive to be better.
Jesus deserves our best and more! When we take the quality of services up, people can actually be excited enough to invite someone. Don’t we all want that?
In the end, you may still find God has been preparing you to leave and that much of this work was in preparation for the next. If that’s the case, rejoice! You’re a work in progress, and God’s church is better because you were a part of it.
But whatever you do, don’t add the taco bar—it’s not who you are. Be who you are.
