Quotes
Authors
Nelson Searcy

"Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church, your first-time guests will know whether or not they are coming back. Thatâ€™s before a single worship song is sung and before a single word of the message is uttered."

Source : Nelson Searcy (2010). “Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church (Large Print 16pt)”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

Nelson Searcy

#Song Quotes #Church Quotes #First Impression Quotes

“No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.”
“By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to believe that violence equals aggression, and we have come to base our model of sexuality on our model of violence... converting an act of aggression into an act of consensual sexuality.”
“One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.”
“Whenever you're in a natural system and you're making sound, you are putting yourself at risk. As you go up the evolutionary ladder, from insects to frogs to birds and on up into mammals, the higher intelligence recognizes that when you vocalize, you put yourself at risk. So mammals generally vocalize or make noise much more rarely than, let's say, insects or frogs. And when they do, and put themselves at risk, it has to be worth the risk, and have true meaning, such as signaling during a hunting party, calling in prey, some religious or spiritual ceremony, something like that.”
“What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.”
“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”

Source : Nora Ephron (2011). “When Harry Met Sally. . .”, p.97, Knopf
“Itâ€™s easy to confuse motion with progress.”

"Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church, your first-time guests will know whether or not they are coming back. Thatâ€™s before a single worship song is sung and before a single word of the message is uttered."

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