Tommy Sparger 10 Easy Ways to Make Church Services More Boring

10 Easy Ways to Make Church Services More Boring

Posted by Tommy in Leadership on 03 10th, 2011 | no responses

I have posted this before, but figured it was time to do it again. I know that I need to be reminded more than once and my guess is that you do too. This comes from “Killing Cockroaches” (good book by Tony Morgan).



1. Don’t worry about when you finish. I’m sure no one has plans after the service.

2. Straight Scriptures, no stories. Jesus didn’t teach that way, but you’re obviously a better teacher than Jesus.


3. No television, no movies. It’s just a phase. People don’t really need visual stimulation. They prefer talking heads.


4. Use the same service order. Every week. No exceptions. Ever.

5. Make more announcements.

6. Encourage elementary school kids to sit through your services. They love lively 45-minute sermons. It’s good for them. It builds character.

7. Talk more about the past and less about the future.

8. Use the same song every week. And try the chorus one more time.

9. Use lots of big words that no one uses in normal, everyday life.

10. Forget relevant topics and life application. That’s overrated. People are really only interested in hearing what you think, not why it matters to them.



Tommy Sparger 10 Easy Ways to Make Church Services More Boring


my comment:

what is wrong with suggestions 2 and 6 and 10

and how bout have some old fashoined hymns being sung during church (aka rule 8).



I am almost 31 and I am sick of CCM music all the time at many churches during song time, how bout play some old hymns in there sometime during a church service.

The Old Rugged Cross is almost never played in churches



as for rule 7:


yeah, right TOMMY , like many churches talk about the future.

most churches dont even want to talk about bible prophecy or the 2nd coming of CHRIST nowadays.


talking about the past and the future is equally important cause it shows were we came from and we were are going