This church is huge, the largest so far.
Consider these four discussion questions about Church #49:
1. I wonder if I’ll find a space in their packed parking lot and fight off the urge to flee in panic. Large churches need parking attendants.
What can you do to help people find a place to park and not drive away?
2. The large lobby has hundreds of people milling about. Just inside, a man approaches us. He’s wearing an ear mic. I wonder if he’s the pastor, but he simply introduces himself as John. Unfortunately, he’s the only one to talk to us.
What can you do to greet visitors?
3. Candy spots a coat rack and we head toward it. It’s full, and so is the next one. The third one has room. Just as it’s hospitable to leave spaces for visitors to park near the entrance, leave space in the coat racks too.
How can you make room for guests?
4. During his message, John instructed members to look for visitors to greet. But no one makes any effort, not even the man sitting in front of us who wears a deacon nametag. He looks past us.
What can you do next Sunday to better greet people you don’t know?
This was a large and anonymous church, were people can show up for church, sit through a service, and leave without ever talking with anyone.
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