{"id":34058,"date":"2022-09-10T21:13:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/making-a-first-impression\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:13:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:13:19","slug":"making-a-first-impression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/making-a-first-impression\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a First Impression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent <em>Pastors Today<\/em> newsletter, Rick Ezell talks about the importance of the first experience visitors have when they come to your church. He notes, &#8220;You only have one chance to make a good first impression. Your first-time guests have some simple desires and basic needs. They decide very quickly if you can meet those criteria. The decision to return for a second visit is often made before guests reach your front door.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Use the Following List of Questions as an Evaluation Tool:<br \/><\/strong>&#8226; Are you creating the entire experience, beginning with your parking lot?<br \/>&#8226; Are you consciously working to remove barriers that make it difficult for guests to find their way around and feel at home with your people?<br \/>&#8226; Do newcomers have all the information they need without having to ask any embarrassing questions?<br \/>&#8226; Are your greeters and ushers on the job, attending to details and anticipating needs before they are expressed?<br \/>&#8226; Does anything about your guests&#8217; first experience make them say, &#8216;Wow!&#8217; and want to return?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/making-a-first-impression\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent Pastors Today newsletter, Rick Ezell talks about the importance of the first experience visitors have when they come to your church. He notes, &#8220;You only have one chance to make a good first impression. Your first-time guests have some simple desires and basic needs. They decide very quickly if you can meet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/making-a-first-impression\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making a First Impression&#8221;<\/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-34058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34058","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=34058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}