This is a great story …
An Anglican priest in Canada has been handing out invites to come to church to peak-hour commuters.
Read the story here: http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/700283
She says we aren’t very good at inviting people to church.
I think she is right. I remember as a teenager when a friend asked to come to church on Christmas Day with me. I spent most of the service saying, “It is normally not this boring.”
It wasn’t boring at all. And she wasn’t wanting a rock show.
Beside our Christmas and Easter postcards, how else do we invite people to church and, perhaps more importantly, how do we treat them if they actually come?
on Sep 26th, 2009 at 6:26 am
This is a great post. I think you are asking an important question that many churches across the world are wondering about. Inviting people into the church needs to be more than a simple “please join us”. The church has a wonderful opportunity to address the needs and wants of the community at large, and those needs vary by group, location, age, responsibilities, etc.
Savvy churches understand that a social media presence which addresses those real-world issues of lax attendees, cultivates a kind of “un-pressured,” open communication that leads directly to church growth.
It also leads thousands to God.