The business and technology magazine Red Herring mentioned Church Marketing Sucks in a recent online article about web 2.0 and the church, “Religious Sites Embrace Web 2.0″. The article covered MyChurch.org and eBible, and included a quote from, well, me:
“The church is probably handicapped in the sense that the least likely place you’ll find twenty-somethings is in a church,” said Kevin Hendricks, creator of the 30,000 visitor-strong blog Church Marketing Sucks. “The few of us who are there are stepping up and trying to pull the church kicking and screaming into the 21st century, and it happens in small ways.”
For accuracy’s sake I’m not actually the creator of CMS. That credit goes to Brad Abare. And for humility’s sake, I have to admit how arrogant that quote sounds when I read it now. I can assure you that’s not my heart. A lot of folks are trying to pull the church kicking and screaming into the 21st century, not just a handful of twenty-somethings. There are actually a lot of people older and younger doing it, and most of them smarter than me. But I think you get my drift.
Yep, CMS is certainly out there in a leadership role. I haven’t had 30,000+ visitors to my blog…
Thanks for mentioning those of us who aren’t 20somethings anymore. I guess I can still hang out here after all.