Comments on: Reach Out http://sonnycable.com/2009/01/18/reach-out/ Just a few things I want to say Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:24:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jay @ Church Marketing http://sonnycable.com/2009/01/18/reach-out/comment-page-1/#comment-5816 Jay @ Church Marketing Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:00:20 +0000 http://sonnycable.com/?p=895#comment-5816 To love your brother is the command of God. Why is it that we forget this number one way to evangelize? To love your brother is the command of God. Why is it that we forget this number one way to evangelize?

]]> By: John http://sonnycable.com/2009/01/18/reach-out/comment-page-1/#comment-776 John Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:04:21 +0000 http://sonnycable.com/?p=895#comment-776 sounds like a great lesson Tammy the kids are lucky to have you working with them. sounds like a great lesson Tammy the kids are lucky to have you working with them.

]]> By: Tammy http://sonnycable.com/2009/01/18/reach-out/comment-page-1/#comment-773 Tammy Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:12:02 +0000 http://sonnycable.com/?p=895#comment-773 Maybe one strategy would be to make the effort to get to the visitor first, then do what we are all guilty of doing... Rushing past everyone to get home or standing around with the usual crowd discussing where we are going to lunch today. By the time we talk to all the regulars, the visitors have slipped out the door. I am guilty of this as well. I know there have been several people who have come to our church for weeks before I had the chance to have a conversation with them. Maybe they are rushing to avoid the crowd or slipping out quietly. Often times I get out of the sanctuary, they are gone. I have been on my way home many times, and realize that I missed speaking to someone. I never want to be so busy or focused on something that I miss an opportunity to make someone feel welcome. This week in my Sunday School class we discussed how we are drawn to people who lift us up, who compliment us and make us feel good, wanted or welcome, yet we may avoid those who cause negative feelings or bring us down. They determined that we want to feel special. If that is the case, should we not practice loving our neighbor as ourself? Isn't that what we all crave? To feel special? To be included? To belong? We have to be God's tool in the church to show them what God wants to be for them. Maybe one strategy would be to make the effort to get to the visitor first, then do what we are all guilty of doing…
Rushing past everyone to get home or standing around with the usual crowd discussing where we are going to lunch today. By the time we talk to all the regulars, the visitors have slipped out the door.

I am guilty of this as well. I know there have been several people who have come to our church for weeks before I had the chance to have a conversation with them. Maybe they are rushing to avoid the crowd or slipping out quietly. Often times I get out of the sanctuary, they are gone.

I have been on my way home many times, and realize that I missed speaking to someone. I never want to be so busy or focused on something that I miss an opportunity to make someone feel welcome.

This week in my Sunday School class we discussed how we are drawn to people who lift us up, who compliment us and make us feel good, wanted or welcome, yet we may avoid those who cause negative feelings or bring us down. They determined that we want to feel special. If that is the case, should we not practice loving our neighbor as ourself?

Isn’t that what we all crave? To feel special? To be included? To belong?
We have to be God’s tool in the church to show them what God wants to be for them.

]]> By: Sonny http://sonnycable.com/2009/01/18/reach-out/comment-page-1/#comment-771 Sonny Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:56:46 +0000 http://sonnycable.com/?p=895#comment-771 Please do. Love you Please do.

Love you

]]> By: TILLER http://sonnycable.com/2009/01/18/reach-out/comment-page-1/#comment-770 TILLER Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:09:49 +0000 http://sonnycable.com/?p=895#comment-770 I want to use this to spur the group that attend the same meeitng I did today. I think this should challenge anyone with the heart to grow the kingdom of our Heavenly Father. Thanks I want to use this to spur the group that attend the same meeitng I did today. I think this should challenge anyone with the heart to grow the kingdom of our Heavenly Father.

Thanks

]]> By: Connie http://sonnycable.com/2009/01/18/reach-out/comment-page-1/#comment-768 Connie Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:13:14 +0000 http://sonnycable.com/?p=895#comment-768 Amen Sonny. That is exactally what attracted Wayne and I to ACOG and the reason why we stayed. The people reached out to us in a special way. We were INCLUDED immediately. They taught us how to be Christians; because we had no experience of our own. We were hungry and they fed us. Hopefully we (or I) can get back to that. Love to you all. Amen Sonny. That is exactally what attracted Wayne and I to ACOG and the reason why we stayed. The people reached out to us in a special way. We were INCLUDED immediately. They taught us how to be Christians; because we had no experience of our own. We were hungry and they fed us. Hopefully we (or I) can get back to that.

Love to you all.

]]> By: Sonny http://sonnycable.com/2009/01/18/reach-out/comment-page-1/#comment-767 Sonny Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:18:26 +0000 http://sonnycable.com/?p=895#comment-767 Thanks for your comment and visit. Thanks for your comment and visit.

]]> By: Theresa Croft http://sonnycable.com/2009/01/18/reach-out/comment-page-1/#comment-766 Theresa Croft Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:25:39 +0000 http://sonnycable.com/?p=895#comment-766 Well written...well said. Thanks for writing about the ultimate "marketing strategy"...and that is to love and serve. Well written…well said. Thanks for writing about the ultimate “marketing strategy”…and that is to love and serve.

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