{"id":78,"date":"2008-01-30T16:55:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T21:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=78"},"modified":"2009-10-05T17:09:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T22:09:56","slug":"why-aren%e2%80%99t-your-people-inviting-other-people-to-attend-your-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/why-aren%e2%80%99t-your-people-inviting-other-people-to-attend-your-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Aren\u2019t Your People Inviting Other People to Attend Your Church?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"solarseven061200019\"Yesterday I talked about the difference between inviting and informing and I gave a shout-out to all The Gathering family, those who are a part of this movement, to go from informing to inviting.\u00a0 So with that in mind, I have a question for you, why do the people attending your church not invite other people to come to the experience? <\/span> They come. They\u2019re faithful. They give and support, but they don\u2019t invite other people.\u00a0 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.You take an average person who goes to a great concert; it\u2019s 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\u2019s going to thank him afterward. So he invites him enthusiastically. They make the date, they plan, they spend the money, they anticipate. We\u2019re really good at inviting people to places that we love going and knowing there\u2019s a benefit at the end.<\/span> 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\u2019t inviting people to your church because they aren\u2019t that enthusiastic about it either<\/span>.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, my experience tells me that this is epidemic in the church in America.\u00a0 When I survey, particularly men, and I talk to a lot of them in my coaching and consulting endeavors, I find that many, many men have parked their \u201cchurch membership\u201d in a church for which they have little passion. They seem to be attending a church that is the least objectionable to them. When asked they say, \u201cFor right now we are . . .\u201d\u00a0 This is usually followed up with, \u201cI don\u2019t get much out of it but,\u201d This ought not be and it must change.\u00a0 So if you\u2019re responsible for anything that goes on in your church, sit down and ask, \u201cAre we so jazzed with what God is doing among us, we can\u2019t help but invited others we know and love to get in on it?\u201d\u00a0 If that is the case, then Yea God, but if not, what are you going to do together to change things?\u00a0 How can you create an environment in which people can\u2019t wait to invite other people?<\/span> May our churches be places real people gather to experience the presence of God and the grace of Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I talked about the difference between inviting and informing and I gave a shout-out to all The Gathering family, those who are a part of this movement, to go from informing to inviting.\u00a0 So with that in mind, I have a question for you, why do the people attending your church not invite other … Continue reading “Why Aren\u2019t Your People Inviting Other People to Attend Your Church?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}