* Are parking attendants in place?

* Is there appropriate signage?

* Are your ushers and greeters welcoming?

* Is the environment you take for granted user-friendly?

2. Most church members aren't friendly. Churches claim to be friendly. But the truth is that most church members are friendly to each other, but not to guests.

This crie de Coeur is very apparent to missionaries who work with Muslims, both in traditional Islamic countries and in the West. I recently heard from a reliable source that in the Muslim world, there is roughly one missionary for every one million Muslims. If the USA were a Muslim nation, there would be a total of 325 missionaries in our entire country. No wonder few Muslims ever hear the gospel.

Christian morality does not stop there; it understands that the way of life and action of Jesus Christ is the highest expression of morality. Jesus Himself said in the Sermon on the Mount that He came to fulfill the moral law, that unless His followers were more righteous than the most scrupulous moralists, they would not make it to heaven. (Matt. 5: 17-20)

Apgar gave nurses a way to rate the health of babies at delivery: "Ten points meant a child born in perfect condition. Four points or less meant a blue, limp baby."

This simple score, devised by an unlikely person-she had never delivered a baby, as a doctor or even as a mother-"turned an intangible and impressionistic clinical concept-the condition of new babies-into numbers that people could collect and compare."