Church Outreach

This is an interesting one. There is a link to the website that gives you the "secrets" of church growth. But beware of the link...read to the end to see what I mean!

If you are serious about outreach, your church must reach visitors.

When someone visits your church for the first time they have taken the first step.

They are saying,"We are interested in your church."

Are you going to meet them half-way or is the unspoken message, "If you want to become a part of the church here fine; but do not expect us to go out of our way to help you."

Now, I know you would never say that...you would not even think that. But, when someone visits a Sunday morning worship service and no one from your church follows up with them, that is exactly what you are saying.

You need a simple but effective way to contact them and let them know you care.

REACH OUT! (the resources that has helped hundreds of churches grow) will show you EXACTLY what to do to "Crack the Code" of a great outreach ministry.

In Him,
--Curt Gunz

Here is the link for more information [LINK REMOVED]

P.S. Do you know all nine "Secret Codes" for a great outreach ministry? I bet "Secret Code #6" surprises you.

Why beware of the link? When you hover over it, you find that it's a domain name, followed by a web page name that is 106 letters long. And not just 106 letters-106 seemingly random hexadecimal code. Now why would anyone have a page name like that? Good question. I can't say for sure the reason in this case, but the typical reasons are:

1. To help track which spamees received the email and clicked the link.
2. Because someone is running an affiliate program, and the code tells the site administrator who referred you. In other words, its a way people can make money off spamming.

If either of those is the reason, I certainly wouldn't click the link.

Incidentally, I then checked out the website, by entering just the domain name. Instead of seeing a page, I received a login screen. What was it trying to log into?

127.0.0.1

What is 127.0.0.1? It's my personal computer.

Do you have a problem with this? I sure do.

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