How to Make this Sunday's Service Excellent at Your Church

If you read the blog regularly, you may already know that I’m a big fan of doing a weekly message run-through.

In other words, set aside some time each week to deliver your entire Sunday message to a small, trusted group of people who can provide helpful feedback before Sunday morning.

This one change in your weekly worship planning routine will drastically improve your preaching and increase your confidence as you step up on Sunday.

It will help you embrace the goal of excellence in your worship services – or doing the absolute best you can with what you have available.

In addition – one advanced technique is to apply the same concept to other important “non-message” elements – like testimonies, special announcements, etc. – all to make sure that we’re bringing our best effort come Sunday.

When any of these other elements are planned, I will ask the person speaking to send me their notes no later than Tuesday, we’ll work on edits on Wednesday, and then I like to include them in the live run-through on Thursday.

If the person involved can’t participate in the live run-through in the office during the week, we do a run-through over the phone and then a live run-through before the service on Sunday morning.

With Easter Sunday upon us, what can you do between now and then to make sure that every element involved in your Easter worship service is the best you can possibly present?

P.S. To learn more about implementing a proven message run-through strategy, starting this week, download your FREE copy of my brand new “Double the Effectiveness of Your Preaching” E-Book by clicking here.

About Nelson Searcy

Nelson Searcy is an experienced church growth strategist, pastor, church planter and coach, consulting with churches around the world. As founder of Church Leader Insights and the Renegade Pastors Network, he has personally trained more than 3,500 church leaders in over 45 denominations through live events, seminars and monthly coaching. Nelson is also the Founding and Lead Pastor of The Journey Church, with locations across New York City and in Boca Raton, FL. Nelson and his church routinely appear on lists such as “The 50 Most Influential Churches” and “The 25 Most Innovative Leaders.” He is the author of over 100 church growth resources and 18+ books, including The Renegade Pastor: Abandoning Average in Your Life, Ministry and The Difference Maker: Using Your Everyday Life for Eternal Impact, and At the Cross with the People Who Were There. He and his wife, Kelley, have one son, Alexander.