Is your church a Welcome Center?
Driving on the Interstate, as we enter each new state, we usually find a welcome center.
A rest stop.
Usually a pleasent building, light, airy, comfortable. A place we stop to find relief, maybe a snack, a map, directions.
Where we find out where we are at that moment.
To me that sounds what the church should be.
Full of light, the breath of the Holy Spirit, comforting the broken hearted, healing the sick, opening the Spititual eyes of those blind.
A place to find a snack, not a meal, we need to feed ourselves daily, the Sunday Snack should be Sunday Special.
A desert, something that makes us desire MORE. More Jesus, more light, more grace, peace.
We need to see the map. Are we moving closer to God?
That is what I believe the Church should be.
Is your Church a Welcome Center? Should it be?
Any ideas how to make it so?
Thanks for visiting. Come back soon.
Know you are loved.
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We have found ours to be. It helps that our foundation is to heal the broken. Train each other in how to pray for healing and not offer advice. When we are given permission to not be perfect and encouraged to share our needs for prayer expecting God to step into our brokenness there is hope and nurturing that takes place.
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Re: Fix-it Shop-Filling Station
I like the way you compare pulling into a rest stop on the highway to a spiritual filling up. It’s clever and it’s practical. It’s good!
Marilyn
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Thanks
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