I had similar experience, which was explained in No.1, on the edge of entering. I was church shopping when I came to the USA 20 years ago. I went to almost every church in the town. I didn’t feel welcomed, most churches wanted to convert me to Christianity in spite of telling them I am a Christian. For most of them since I am from India I am a Hindu and I need to be converted to Christianity. However, when a friend took me to a Lutheran church, where they had fellowship hour before the worship the smell of the coffee and the chocolate chips cookies hooked me to go week after week and finally fell in love with everyone and everything.
The pastor reached out to me. Gave me an opportunity to tell my story of faith. The church family became my faith family. The church became a home away from home to me. The …show more content…
They usually send a letter first informing them and then they do it.
We discussed about addressing membership as belonging. Recently during our Stewardship Sunday couple of members who have been members all their lives and those who became members a year ago gave a temple talk what it meant to them to be members of our congregation. They talked about belonging. After that three people approached me about becoming members. I believe loving people is the key for belonging and membership automatically falls in place.
2. I would like to add On the Edge: Power and Ego. I noticed when some people cannot exercise their power, power they want because they give huge tithe, or power because they have been in the church very long put them on an edge when things do not go their way. I remember a member once came and told me I have to do certain things. When I asked because he pays my salary. I was not surprised because I heard his kind of language used by people. Still we need to love those people
The pastor reached out to me. Gave me an opportunity to tell my story of faith. The church family became my faith family. The church became a home away from home to me. The …show more content…
They usually send a letter first informing them and then they do it.
We discussed about addressing membership as belonging. Recently during our Stewardship Sunday couple of members who have been members all their lives and those who became members a year ago gave a temple talk what it meant to them to be members of our congregation. They talked about belonging. After that three people approached me about becoming members. I believe loving people is the key for belonging and membership automatically falls in place.
2. I would like to add On the Edge: Power and Ego. I noticed when some people cannot exercise their power, power they want because they give huge tithe, or power because they have been in the church very long put them on an edge when things do not go their way. I remember a member once came and told me I have to do certain things. When I asked because he pays my salary. I was not surprised because I heard his kind of language used by people. Still we need to love those people