Thursday, April 06, 2023

Thursday's Catch: '3 Places to Greet Easter Guests This Weekend'


The greeters at your church have an important job this weekend as they greet many Easter guests. But what does this role entail?

This One Meeting Revolutionized How I Listen to My Church Staff
“Start meeting with each team member one-on-one, at least once a month.”

Serving Up Wesleyan Liturgical Spirituality
You are what you eat, the old saying goes. We celebrate worship, but we also consume and internalize it. It shapes who we are and charts what we might become. We become who we are in large part because of how we worship.
Over four decades I have learned a lot about worship from other church traditions beside the one in which I was baptized ad confirmed.
How You Can Support Easter Services With Prayer
"I fear that many churches plan for weeks (or months) for Easter weekend, but then pray for only minutes over the weekend’s events," writes Chuck Lawless. "To counter this tendency, I encourage you to use this list to pray individually and corporately with intentionality throughout this week."

Four Reasons to Be Early to the Sunday Gathering
What if you showed up to the Sunday gathering just 10-minutes early? Here are some reasons that I think it would be a good idea to give it a try.
It is long been my practice to arrive well before the begining of a service and to pray for the people who be be filling the yet unoccupied pews, for te service leader, any assiting ministers, the choir, and the musicians.
How can we carry our Sunday confidence into Monday morning?
If our benchmark of success is everyone responding warmly to the gospel, then even Jesus failed. But if our benchmark is that we go out into the ordinary world, join in with what God is already doing there, and expect to see fruit in whatever measure he decides – then we can all succeed. That's how it worked for Jesus.

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