Books and Covers?!

Who judges a book by the pages during the first impression?

Sometimes I will look inside a book to see if it is good, but most of the time I gravitate to a good looking cover. (This is not a metaphor)

But it makes me wonder about first impressions at Church and ministers. Do looks come into play for the visitor of a Church? And is it bad if a minister looks unhealthy?

To me if a minister looks unhealthy I associate with that: lethargic, sloppy, bad manager of their life, uninterested, and uncaring. If a visitor thinks like this than they wont come back. But they will go to a Church where they like the look of the minister.

It is a human characteristic that we flock to people that we want to be like. We gravitate towards them. I noticed this especially when I was a personal trainer. People who wanted to gain muscle flocked to the more muscular trainers, women flocked toward the prettiest female trainer. Usually the more charismatic, content and confident you were the more people would be likely to want to train under you.

I want to put forward that ministers looking after their physical appearance will attract more people to church, and/or keep more visitors coming back.