There are only two things you need to join Pastor Moses’church welcome team. 1) A great smile. 2) A terrible memory.
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I remember this one guy who kept on coming up to me and a friend of mine when we first started going to a certain church – it was the exact same experience as this comic.
I'll admit that I used to serve on the welcome team at my church. I did it because I thought that I had to – I did it out of a sense of duty. To be honest, I really hated it because it felt so false and coaxed. Whenever the church makes a rule, or a role, out of something – it can take the natural spontaneity out of it.
Maybe if they hung out together.. they would be able to remember each other. I think Pastor Moses should organize a church get together. Why with the informal, formal….???>>
I'm with Yannick. If a church needs a "welcome team," then I don't feel welcome there. If a church needs to be encouraged to "be friendly" to visitors, then I don't feel befriended. Be the body of Christ!Then everything's cool.
Haha ! So true ! The funniest thing is that happen to a lot of assemblies !
I've heard a pastor's wife from an institutionnal church said "Well, you know, people may leave the church but others would come".
It means that it works like a business corporation : people leave the company after being exhausted and abused by the system but new would come, excited by the newness of the "church" and being recognized by their responsability. It's a vicious circle.
Thus, new people become the "Welcome Team" without knowing the ones who are used to come… its like Mc Donald…
Great Comic!!! I think this one will hit a nerve with a lot of people. I told my pastor when I started going to his church that I "Hated" church because the people were so fake and didn't know you once they were outside the church walls. I was giving him all of the reasons I didn't want to go. He actually said to me "I hate churches and preachers too". He calls them "Plastic Pastors". I am so grateful that the Spirit led me to the Church I am in now. Otherwise I wouldn't be involved at all and would still be lost.
I'm all for having grace with the memory of any church's 'welcome team'. but
I'm all for asking yourself the question: Did Jesus ask us to have a 'welcome team'? Does it promote having real relationships? Is the welcome produced by the Spirit moving in one's heart or by the law of the leader telling you to welcome people? Is it beneficial to welcome people that believe you want to be their friend, but as soon as your off duty – not in ministry time – you are not interested in how they are doing? Is the solution for this problem trying harder to be nice to them? Surely not!
The solution is trusting the Spirit of Grace who leads you into all truth and moves your heart to maintain relationships with the people he leads you to have. There is no obligation to maintain a relationship with whomsoever. It doesn't need to be forced about. But by the Spirit – which was brought along by the sacrifice of Jesus – we were given a new heart, which really cares about people, really welcomes them and really has Grace with each other when we are not perfect in every manner. But true.
Ha ha! A subtle way to get you 'on board'? You're not 'visible' enough!
LOVE IT!!! happened t me several times.
hahahah
I remember this one guy who kept on coming up to me and a friend of mine when we first started going to a certain church – it was the exact same experience as this comic.
I'll admit that I used to serve on the welcome team at my church. I did it because I thought that I had to – I did it out of a sense of duty. To be honest, I really hated it because it felt so false and coaxed. Whenever the church makes a rule, or a role, out of something – it can take the natural spontaneity out of it.
LOL! I'm still laughing as I type this!
This is so, so familiar!
Maybe if they hung out together.. they would be able to remember each other. I think Pastor Moses should organize a church get together. Why with the informal, formal….???>>
I'm with Yannick. If a church needs a "welcome team," then I don't feel welcome there. If a church needs to be encouraged to "be friendly" to visitors, then I don't feel befriended. Be the body of Christ! Then everything's cool.
Haha ! So true ! The funniest thing is that happen to a lot of assemblies !
I've heard a pastor's wife from an institutionnal church said "Well, you know, people may leave the church but others would come".
It means that it works like a business corporation : people leave the company after being exhausted and abused by the system but new would come, excited by the newness of the "church" and being recognized by their responsability. It's a vicious circle.
Thus, new people become the "Welcome Team" without knowing the ones who are used to come… its like Mc Donald…
Great Comic!!! I think this one will hit a nerve with a lot of people. I told my pastor when I started going to his church that I "Hated" church because the people were so fake and didn't know you once they were outside the church walls. I was giving him all of the reasons I didn't want to go. He actually said to me "I hate churches and preachers too". He calls them "Plastic Pastors". I am so grateful that the Spirit led me to the Church I am in now. Otherwise I wouldn't be involved at all and would still be lost.
I'm all for having grace with the memory of any church's 'welcome team'. but
I'm all for asking yourself the question: Did Jesus ask us to have a 'welcome team'? Does it promote having real relationships? Is the welcome produced by the Spirit moving in one's heart or by the law of the leader telling you to welcome people? Is it beneficial to welcome people that believe you want to be their friend, but as soon as your off duty – not in ministry time – you are not interested in how they are doing? Is the solution for this problem trying harder to be nice to them? Surely not!
The solution is trusting the Spirit of Grace who leads you into all truth and moves your heart to maintain relationships with the people he leads you to have. There is no obligation to maintain a relationship with whomsoever. It doesn't need to be forced about. But by the Spirit – which was brought along by the sacrifice of Jesus – we were given a new heart, which really cares about people, really welcomes them and really has Grace with each other when we are not perfect in every manner. But true.