Delivering announcements can be intimidating, but thank God it\u2019s less difficult than it sounds. What\u2019s difficult is finding the humility to prepare well for what feels like a less-glorious part of the worship service.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What makes for good announcements? In four words, they should be specific, worshipful, credible, and brief.\u00a0<\/p>\n
SPECIFIC\u00a0<\/p>\n
The point of announcements is to make sure everyone knows the details about what\u2019s happening and how to follow up. Though that information is probably available elsewhere, repetition keeps the group on the same page.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The most important details are those that answer the question, \u201cWhat should I do if I\u2019m interested?\u201d This could sound like anything from, \u201cSign up in the lobby,\u201d to, \u201cCome to the information meeting this Tuesday at 7 p.m.\u201d Give them specific details, and tell them exactly what to do next.\u00a0<\/p>\n
WORSHIPFUL<\/p>\n
Often announcements are bemoaned as a distraction from worship\u2014and they can be. But if everything a church does together is part of our worship, announcing them on Sunday should be also. In these announcements, we get to hear concretely how Scripture is moving this congregation to act together.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sometimes, it helps to explicitly make the connection between worship and an announcement, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sunday morning announcements at church may be understated, but good ones set the tone for a worship service and keep the congregation informed. The time it takes to do them well is worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[369],"class_list":["post-49784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-general","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49786,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49784\/revisions\/49786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}