Notes on Leadership Journal, Part 6: Perception= Reality

Perception= Reality:

Let’s talk about your experience at local establishments.

What motivates you to visit a new restaurant or store?

What are some things you might do before visiting, to make sure that you will visit?

Upon visiting, what are the first things that you notice?

What are other important factors during your visit that you take in?

What is the most important thing to you during your visit?

What will make you return?

What would make you never return?

What would make you tell a friend about this business, or invite them to visit it with you?

This is the Reality of Church in Our Culture As Well:

If a mattress store, who sells MATTRESSES, puts forth great amounts of money, creativity, effort, sweat and tears in order to get a customer to come in, buy a MATTRESS, tell their friends, and come back; we too as a church need to be serious and intentional about how the public perceives us, how we market the Gospel, how we receive people when they join us, how we present the Gospel to them, how we can get them to come back, and how we can get them to invite their friends to come check us out!!!!!!