Paying Non-Christians to Come to Church

I thought I would post a quickie today, following on from a great comment by Alastair on my previous post, The Most Hated Family in America, where he was saying we need to listen to the criticism of people who aren’t Christians, and yet are the very people that church exists for …

Jim Henderson, founder of Off the Map, pays people who aren’t Christians to come to church! And it isn’t some devious attempt at conversion (somewhat surprisingly!). No in fact is a brilliant attempt at doing the very thing that Alastair is suggesting … not mystery shopping, but mystery churching! Paying someone to come to church, to get thier honest feedback on what they thought about the experience.

And now Jim (currently a Christian) and Casper (currently an athiest) have written a book about thier experience of visiting a number of different churches in the US, called Jim and Casper go to Church. You can read the introduction here, and the first chapter where they go to Rick Warren’s Church, Saddleback. It is an illumitating and fasinating read.

HT - Dave Faulkner

Tags: Jim Henderson, Off the Map, Jim and Casper