
How to Train Church Greeters to Truly Welcome Visitors
Every week families arrive at church. They walk through the main doors and head down familiar paths toward “their” seat.
I’ve broken both arms. Not at the same time but in separate accidents (involving a tree house first and then a bicycle). Both falls resulted in broken bones requiring casts.
I can remember how aggravating it was to have an itch deep inside the cast and not have the ability to reach it. I would knock on the cast and even try to scratch the opposite arm hoping to mentally cure the issue. Finally the cast was removed and I was able to scratch, and scratch, and scratch.
Your audience has many “itches” that can’t be easily scratched.
Effective church communication is all about scratching itches (or helping them scratch the itch). Do that properly and people will need you and keep returning. Here are 4 steps to do it well:
This is where the magic happens (what true outreach and evangelism should focus on). People will pursue your church; looking for your ministries.
The missing ingredient that the world needs and you have? Jesus. Be sure to point to Him. We need that divine scratching for our nagging sin problem that causes a lot of our itches. This is how the church can be relevant to a world that has lost sight of church benefits. Scratch their itch and they’ll listen again.
Every week families arrive at church. They walk through the main doors and head down familiar paths toward “their” seat.
When a legal expert asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” it followed the command to “love your neighbor as yourself.”
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