In a recent article, Thom Rainer offers 10 commandments for church parking lots. Here are the first six he suggests:<\/p>\n
“The Word of God and His truths are foundational and much more important, but to neglect practical ministry is to be unwise and, perhaps, even sinful.<\/p>\n
"Through the years, I have gathered untold volumes of information about practical ministries in churches. Let me share with you some of these lessons about parking lots through 'ten commandments.'<\/p>\n
"You shall have at least one greeter in the parking lot.<\/strong> That person makes an immediate impression on guests.<\/p>\n "You shall understand the 80 percet rule applies to parking lots.<\/strong> When the parking lot is 80 percent full, it appears totally full to a guest.<\/p>\n "You shall calculate your attendees per car ratio. <\/strong>On the average, two persons come together in a car to church. That number can vary significantly by church, and it definitely affects how many spaces a lot should have.<\/p>\n "You shall have more than adequate handicap spaces. <\/strong>Do not limit these spaces to code requirements; exceed the requirements.<\/p>\n "You shall have more than adequate guest parking.<\/strong> Make certain you have at least one more guest spot than the highest number of guest cars you have for a given worship service.<\/p>\n "You shall have parking for needy groups in the church.<\/strong> Those groups vary by church. One church has several places for expectant mothers. Another church has spots for the more-than-80 attendees. (Read all 10 parking commandments here.)<\/p>\n In a recent article, Thom Rainer offers 10 commandments for church parking lots. Here are the first six he suggests: “The Word of God and His truths are foundational and much more important, but to neglect practical ministry is to be unwise and, perhaps, even sinful. "Through the years, I have gathered untold volumes of … Continue reading “6 Rules for Your Church Parking Lot”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}