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Beyond the First Visit: The Complete Guide to Connecting Guests to Your Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

All churches like to think that theirs is the friendliest in town. But do visitors see it that way? Church consultant Gary McIntosh invites readers to take a look at their church through the eyes of visitors and potential visitors. His starting point, grounded in an understanding of God as a "welcomer," is that churches should see those who enter their doors as not merely visitors, but as guests,...

four main body-space zones and labeled them intimate, personal, social, and public. The public zone is the distance at which pastors, teachers, and lecturers most often stand in relation to their audience—about twelve feet or more between speaker and listener. The social zone is the distance we often stand apart from each other when talking in a small group. This zone is between four and twelve feet and is suitable for fairly impersonal exchanges, such as in meetings or interviews. The personal zone