What Gets Rewarded, Gets Repeated (Part 1) – First and Second Time Guest Gifts

What you celebrate in your church matters… it matters when it comes to evangelism, discipleship and life charge.

Today, I want to challenge you to celebrate the right things and see a greater blessing in those areas of your church.

There is an old leadership principle that says, “That which gets rewarded gets repeated,” and I think that’s true.

In fact, for those of you that are doing the assimilation system like I teach, you are already applying this principle when you send out the gifts to your first time guests. In many ways, that is a way for you to reward them. They have attended once so now you thank them with a handwritten note. You put the gift inside of the handwritten note, and that is a reward. They get a little reward for doing that.

Like when you were a kid and you went to the dentist. They gave you a little reward because you survived the dental cleaning or whatever it might be. Everybody still loves to get a sticker. Everybody still loves to get a gift card. Everybody loves to be rewarded. I do and you do, too. You reward the behavior that you want repeated.

They came for the first time and you reward it. Well, if you work the assimilation system like I teach it, they come back a second time where you reward them again for coming back. You send them another gift and their second-time guest letter following their second visit.

If you’ve done that long enough and with enough experience, you know that from time-to-time people will even write-in on their connection card that they are third-time guests. Now, we don’t actually have a follow-up process for third-time guests. But because you rewarded them the first time, they came back, repeated it. You rewarded them a second time. They came back and you repeated the reward.

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Nelson

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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.

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