Sermon Transcript Tone Analysis

A lot of things happening.

No, don't want to.

I don't doubt the goodness.

Don't doubt his presents.

Don't doubt his wisdom, don't do that.

We do that.

Then the devil have us right?

Where he wants us.

And you know I can't do that.

I'll tell Martha on the way over, we'll talk about gas prices, how high they are.

And there was a guy out in California yesterday.

He ran one of these, like service, like stations of whatever kind of like sheets or something.

And They got there, all the gas tanks filled up, and he went back inside, and he was putting any supposed to a put $6.99 per gallon.

And he move the decimal point by mistake and everybody got their gas for $0.69 a gallon.

And the first guy got it and he called his family and friends.

And, and the guy working at the store, took him two or three hours to figure it out.

He said, why is everybody pulling up here to get gas?

And I'll and they went through just about all the gas before, he figured it out and corporate fired him of course, but it was honest mistake.

But they lost around $40,000 because of that.

So that if I saw it for $0.69,

I think I would run get in line to it knew I would too.

So 69c, just put the desk in the wrong spot.

So you hate that for that to happen, you know, to anyone Alright, well, we're simulation simulating people into our church.

We're on part for tonight and if you does, he want, everybody have their hand out, I hope.

Okay, if you need one I've got one up here I think but Anyway, if we're where did we leave off at witness like the on the last page?

Okay, so last week be caught a little bit about the closing script which would be something that I would say while I'm up here before we have our offering and then remember exiting, you know, we all say well we'll see you next week.

You know will say that the quality of child you if you're teaching children.

A one good thing to do is if you're teaching children give them a page or something of homework something to carry home.

So you can say will bring this back next week and we will, you know, we're going to go over there like that cuz a lot of time should we tell our parents know Miss so-and-so said I've got to bring this back next week enough so you know if you're teaching children or whatever, just have them a little take-home homework or or something.

For our service in in people that see our website, if they want to know if they, you know what our services like I have those questions answered on the website.

So tonight, what I want to do is finish these fill in the blanks here.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to walk you through these fill in the blanks, then I'm going to go back and talk a little bit about it and then at the end, maybe we can get to the point where we can start doing some things and writing something down.

That we need to do based on this simulation cuz we've covered right much stuff.

You think about it inside outside the grounds, greeting the service, make sure it flows well.

And now tonight, we going to talk about post service contact in this is where we going to need one or two.

People whose pretty savvy.

With the internet.

Can get on faith life and and put some stuff in a database that we're going to have on there.

So let's look at that.

So personable and press it, post service contact rules on first-time.

Guess well we can't contact anyone unless we have their what contact information.

Now what it what is that?

Where I brought a sample connection card in our connection cards are going to look similar to this?

It says, connection card, name spouse name, children's name, then it's got a circle.

They can bore about Christian, just hold it up and see if you see that interior is different from a call from guest, you know.

But if it's one or two or three, put those people in the database and put out beside that in comments or whatever, first-time visitor, when I look at it, Sunday afternoon that will tell me that they need a contact, you know, either that afternoon or no later than Monday afternoon.

I'll probably give the first to contacts for a new.

I will.

I will email them and I will send them a personal note.

Or I will call them by Thursday.

But we'll, we'll get more to that in a second.

So I call from a volunteer is, did Ice Cream.

Both are important.

If first Contact takes more, in two days, it doesn't count a phone conversation that last more than 5 minutes drastically increases, the likelihood that the gas won't return.

They don't mind the church calling them.

They just don't want someone to call and just keep them on the phone for 20-25 minutes talking.

They just don't want that.

We're glad that you came and I hope you got your gift.

Yes, I did.

Well, it was good having you.

We just want invite you back and let you know that we're so happy that you chose.

We see you as a gas, a very important person, blah, blah, whatever.

But shorter than 5 minutes 2 or 3 minutes will be fine.

For the first phone conversation, e01 the form letter.

A form letter.

In other words, a computer-generated letter.

That says we were glad you were here Sunday with a digital signal here, no one likes that.

So when we send something first-time visitors after we send them an e-mail say I'm going to write them a personal note and sign it.

And we going to have to put it in the mail so they get it by Thursday or Friday of that next week.

So we need to mail it by probably Tuesday, but I'm, I'm going to ride it.

Yeah, probably, so yeah.

But like I said, we're not going to visitors here.

You know, so so we'll send a letter a handwritten, not a letter but just a little something, I'll go over, we open hand address notes first.

That's what I just said, we don't get many handwritten notes anymore.

Everybody knows that you don't get many handwritten notes.

matter fact, most of us have have trouble writing I have trouble writing, I have trouble writing because for so long, I worked on a computer and signed everything.

When I left nor tail, when I had to sign a check, I almost had to just I got down there and my handwriting was awful because I never right, you know, so I'm about to learn the right before I send these notes, you know, in our email inboxes are usually full Monday morning, they're usually empty by 10 a.m.

alright next page.

Every gas gets a gift before they leave the church.

That's the first time I guess we're going to have these little gift bags.

Hopefully, I can, we can get them to wear Scott.

The church name on it.

Maybe logo, or, maybe a night or something.

And inside the little bag we can Give him a pain like this whatever color we choose for our connection card will carry that same color throughout and everything else we give whether it's invite cards, pins, whatever will carry.

That same color out this.

Here's the size of pain, it would be, it would have new Grace Church on it, it could have our email and can have our website on it.

So we'll get bad as a gift.

We can give.

I've got a little book that I'm going to get everybody about God questions about God, and then we might be able to get a little notepad with the church name and all on it.

Or we could just give a little treat, a little sweet treat or something like that.

In one of the bags, we can leave the bags out here, have them there again, someone's going to have to fill the bags, will have to have them ready, you know, on Sunday mornings and things of that nature, but we have time to do that.

But every first time getting gas will get a gift before they leave.

Every newcomer should receive a welcome call.

By Monday night.

So that could be an email or call.

If it's a call or an e-mail, it will probably be be from me.

And then I'll write a note that they will get by Thursday and then someone else a volunteer can call on Thursday.

And just say, well we hope you can come back.

Hope you'll be back this Sunday because we going to continue our series by Bob bought something like that but it's good for them to hear not only from the pastor but also from someone else in the church.

Okay, every newcomer receives email from the pastor between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Monday, I will do that.