Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Eight Trends about Church Bulletins


It is amazing to look at the total resources of time and money expended on church bulletins. Because bulletins seem to be such a trivial issue, we often fail to consider their impact or lack of impact. In reality, the impact is greater than we might imagine. Not only do we expend significant resources on bulletins, both guests and members tend to have pretty strong feelings about them.

Our team has been observing some major trends regarding bulletins. Here is what we found thus far. Read more
In a growing number of liturgical churches the words of congregational responses, psalms, and prayers and the lyrics of hymns and songs are being projected on one or more screens, using multimedia projectors and presentation slides, rather than being printed in an order of service in the church bulletin. A worship leader gives brief cues to the appropriate posture for each part of the service: "Let us kneel and confess our sins." "Let us stand and sing God's praise" 

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