Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Are you Welcoming?

Romans 15: 7          ESV
Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.

Do you ever remember being a new visitor at church?
Deb and I came to a new Bible study when we were new converts many years ago.

We didn’t know anything about the Bible at all.
When we asked the question... “By the way, whose Mark?”, a man in the Bible study said... “You know Mark...Mark of the Bible!!

I can still see the look on that guys face like it was yesterday. Deb and I wanted to crawl into any hole possible, but we didn’t find one.
Talk about a daaaa moment!! For obvious or not so obvious reasons, we didn’t feel welcomed, and we didn’t return.

How do you welcome someone new in your home church?
Do you go out of your way to make them feel comfortable?

Many in the church today have turned a bit inward.

Maybe we should have a teaching in church, for how to treat newcomers?

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