Why Aren’t Your People Inviting Other People to Attend Your Church?
- Posted by: Todd
- Posted on: Wed, January 30, 2008
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David continues:
You take an average person who goes to a great concert; it’s very easy for that person to invite someone to the next one. He went and had a great experience. He was moved, he was touched, it was a great value, and it was worth the time and the effort. He knows that his friend is going to benefit from it and he’s going to thank him afterward. So he invites him enthusiastically. They make the date, they plan, they spend the money, they anticipate. We’re really good at inviting people to places that we love going and knowing there’s a benefit at the end.
So at the end of the day, maybe what you should be more focused on is helping your people love to come and to understand the benefit that others may have who come after them. Maybe people aren’t inviting people to your church because they aren’t that enthusiastic about it either.
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David posts a good question: Why don’t people in your church invite people to your church? Is it as simple as David’s answer? What do you think?
David Foster writes, "Why do the people attending your church not invite other people to come to the experience? They come. They’re faithful. They give and support, but they don’t invite other people. If people in your church are not inviting people, they are not inviting people on purpose. We think they are intimidated, but they are not. They know very well how to invite people to great stuff. They do it all the time..."
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RevJeff on Fri, February 08, 2008
Phil -
Have you considered a “replant”? Take your members through a values exploration and define what God is calling you to be and do NOW and in the future… bury the past and let those dead branches burn…
Sounds harsh (intentionally) but in some ruts, the only way out is a violent bouncing of the wagon.
Frankhere on Tue, July 28, 2009
I’m a believer but do not regularly go to church. I have visited many churches and cannot tell you how many I can walk in and out of and nobody says “hello.” Every church I’ve ever gone to follows the same ritual (so you thought only catholics have rituals). The ritual goes like this: Walk in the door find a seat, let’s all stand and praise the Lord for three songs, let’s sit and hear a sermon, let’s pass the plate, let’s sing one more song for good measure, let’s be dismissed.
Why bother to go? There are plenty of sermons and devotionals on the internet and tv. Oh you say “join a cell group.” I’ve been in many. You can’t take a bunch of people who don’t know each other and expect them to get into a deep friendship while they are “discussing the sermon” or answering questions in a workbook. Sorry but that doesn’t work either.
People are creatures of habit and are difficult to change. Churches need to do some radically different things or else they are going to all be buildings with ageing and shrinking congregations. Is there any leadership out there that will try something new or are we going to continue to have “services” forever. Do you honestly think that today’s kids are going to grow up and voluntarily want to go to “services.” Get your head from under a rock and have a look around at the culture. The old methods of instilling guilt aren’t going to work for most people in the future. Sunday morning will be a time to read books and excercise. Well there, I said what needed to be said.
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