GPW - Maximize the guest preacher.

They're coming to help so get all the help you can. They're serving you, you're not doing them a favor. 5 ways to maximize the next guest preacher.

Let’s start with a bit of reality:
You’re not doing them a favor, they’re serving you.

But I see many, many churches overpay and/or over-invest in a guest preacher and the experience. Then trip over themselves so that “honored” [Instagram Star Preacher] would even come show his face to them. Then bend over backwards, at the expense of their team and rhythms, to make the guest feel like a king. Then 2 hours later the sermon is all but forgotten, the church will see literally no longterm impact from it, the guest has already forgotten your name, and you’re $10,000 poorer.

All that for a re-heated sermon?

*** Left a fun little voiceover thing at the bottom of this one. Totally forgot it existed but I enjoyed it. The soundtrack got me fired up this morning. ***