The first time someone visits your church shouldn’t be the last, but in our efforts to help someone feel welcome we can often do just the opposite. It’s kind of like the pushy salesmen - the harder you try the further you push them away.
Take a look at a couple ways people tend to separate themselves from visitors when their real intent is to get closer.
This keeps coming up everywhere I am lately; We hear about someone who didn’t like something about how we do what we do and our response is “well, we can’t please everyone.” I say this all the time, backed up with what Jesus said about people that were being neither hot or cold, and what Jesus told people that if you follow me that the world would hate you.
And most people would agree. We can’t please everyone. But does that mean we shouldn’t try?
There are many ways to accept gifts (or tithes) on a church website. Many, however, have serious drawbacks.
In this article, Kent Shaffer lists some of the most common ways churches are offering this option.
A friend recently wrote a blog called “Blogging Tips” - where he listed (among other things) that you should keep your blog positive. I agree. Writing about positive things helps us to stay positive, and I don’t believe that being critical of others is usually our job. Besides, there are always enough critical people our there, we need more positive.