09.26.08
A Family Expecting Guests! The Churches Response to Visitors!
The church is a family expecting guests! Every week God intentionally sends to churches those they are able and willing to welcome. He prepares the heart of the guest, prompts and invitation from a friend or neighbor and wakes them up Sunday morning walking them through your doors. Are you ready to accept these gifts from God?
Greeting, caring, and preparing for those who walk through the door as though they are walking into your own home. A family expecting guests!
Whether you are on a greeter ministry team or not, every church member (family member) has the responsibilty to accept the gifts that God sends them weekly.
The Responsibility of Every Member
Ministering to Guests
1. Speak with guests when you first see them, and again before they leave. Invite them to come again.
2. Always, Always, Always offer help to a guest that seems unsure or apprehensive.
3. Never leave a guest to find their way alone with spoken directions. Walk them to the right place and use this opportunity to get to know your guests.
4. Introduce your guest to 2 other family members.
5. After the closing prayer, turn on your “guest radars” and greet everyone in your section. Go immediately! The slightest delay could mean loss of contact!
If every family member would respond in these ways and make intentional adjustments to treat these gifts as if they were guests in your own home, I believe God will be honored. As God sends gifts to your church, what will you do with them? Be a family expecting guests!
