Creating Momentum

Momentum is a church’s best friend when they have it. The question is how do we get momentum, and an even better question is how do we keep it? I sure don't have all the answers and insight to this, but the Lord has helped People's Church get momentum, and for 5 1/2 years, we have kept it. Lord willing, we will keep the big MO on our side. Over the next few days, I want to give you some things that I believe has helped PC get and maintain momentum.

1. You MUST have great, inspiring, excellent and God-filled services. So many churches don't have great services. They treat the weekend services like it's no big deal. They spend very little energy planning, preparing and evaluating the weekend services.

Every week at PC, our team gives a lot of thought to planning great services. Our Worship Team practices and learns their parts before the weekend arrives. I study my messages long before Saturday night. As a matter of fact, I spend most of my week praying, thinking about, studying and preparing for Sunday's message. It's the most important thing I do all week.

Every week our staff evaluates the entire weekend. We ask, what was great? What went wrong? What do we need to improve on? How can we do things better? We even ask people to come and evaluate our services. We listen to what first-time guests are saying about our services. The bottom line is we work extremely hard to have great, memorable, Holy Spirit inspiring and life-changing services.

If your services stink, people aren't excited about the church. If your services stink, people aren't motivated to invite their friends to church. If you think your services are good but other people think they stink, YOU WILL NOT GET MOMENTUM ON YOUR SIDE!