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Is it awkward for you when you go to a new church?
How can a church make you feel welcome when you come to visit?
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
#6 !!!!!
This past week was spring break, as you know, and over spring break i went to Georgia to work at Hephzibah childrens home. Well, when we got back to IWU the dorms were locked on saturday so i ended up going to Connersville, IN with my friend for the night and consequently to church with him in the morning. It was a high school sunday school and we started off with worship at the beginning. Then, for the rest of the time we primarily talked about how to reach out to people. Everyone talked about how to reach out to their friends at high school, then they talked about welcoming people into the church and then they all talked to me seen as i was new and they wanted me to feel welcome. We then talked about how it is usually awkward to come into a church and that all the church can do is welcome someone because it really depends on the person with how awkward it is for them. So we ended up the conversation talking about that and class ended after about a half hour.
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seen as no one else did entries, i will comment on my own! yay!
ReplyDeleteI have primarily gotten over the awkwardness of going into a new church, only because God has done a lot of teaching to me that the church is the body of christ and it is a family. I look forward to going to new churches because church can be a great representation of the diversity of the body of christ and how that doesnt matter because we are a family of God.
Churches that are very welcoming are a necessity, if your church isnt welcoming then there is something seriously wrong because that is one of the main purposes of the church to be loving and accepting of everyone; though i know a lot of them arent so accepting.
The church must do that.
Yes it is awkward to go to a new church at first. Most of the time though it's mostly my fault. For i act awkward and then it just feels awkward. To make it better i would say just have a welcoming crew ones that are very sociable. Who can start up a convo about anything.
ReplyDeleteeh, i usually don't feel awkward... unless the church would go out of their way to make me feel like that. I would way that i usually feel pretty welcome. The one time i do feel out of place is if the church does a lot of strange things (things that i'm not used to) and i have no idea whats gong on. What a church can do is invite the visitors in: actually talk to them, strike up a conversation - don't make the regular attenders a big clique and everyone else the losers. Be w e l c o m i n g. Its quite an easy concept, but when we get to church and see everyone we know its easy to forget about all the people that don't know anyone
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