Maybe you grew up in church or maybe you haven’t been to church in years. You are welcome and valued in our church. We would love to help you grow!
How did Religion Evolve?
Ecclesiastes 3:1
“There’s a season for everything and a time for every matter under the heavens: a time for giving birth and a time for dying, a time for planting and a time for uprooting what was planted, a time for killing and a time for healing, a time for tearing down and a time for building up, a time for crying and a time for laughing, a time for mourning and a time for dancing, a time for throwing stones and a time for gathering stones, a time for embracing and a time for avoiding embraces, a time for searching and a time for losing, a time for keeping and a time for throwing away, a time for tearing and a time for repairing, a time for keeping silent and a time for speaking, a time for loving and a time for hating, a time for war and a time for peace.”
A New Way of Joining EBN Church
It’s important to welcome new church members to the congregation. Not only is it the Christian thing to do, but it helps maintain the longevity of your church. After all, what will happen if all your new members leave after only a few months of membership? Once they respond to a church invitation text message, letter or face-to-face invitation, you want them to feel welcomed and comfortable at your church.
Finding the right actions and words to welcome new church members is key to ensuring a steady stream of newcomers. It’s doubly important when you consider new members are likely to be younger, and for most churches, these younger members are hard to come by.
For the first year ever, PEW Research reported that less than half of all Americans are members of a church. A lot of the drop in membership across America comes from young people choosing not to engage in organized religion.
Whoever your new members are, your church likely went through a lot of effort to get them on board. Make sure their commitment sticks. Use the following tips to welcome new church members to the congregation.
The Heart of the True Father
Wherever you are on your spiritual journey in Christ, you are welcome at Christ Church. You do not have to join in order to participate in worship, many areas of serving, Connection Groups, or classes.
Yet, for those who wish to join us in the mission to love God above all things and our neighbors as ourselves, membership is an excellent way to live out that mission. This mission requires partners and fellow travelers on the journey, and membership is way of deepening your commitment to this larger purpose.
Does he Prioritise Church?
You can take the first step into membership by reading the following information about Christ Church and answering the questions below. This is a wonderful way for you to get to know Christ Church and for us to get to know you! New members are received into the church four times a year.
Before the first star was kindled, before the first living creature began to sing the praise of its Creator, he loved his Church with an everlasting love. He spied her in the glass of predestination, pictured her by his divine foreknowledge, and loved her with all his heart; and it was for this cause that he left his Father, and became one with her, that he might redeem her. It was for this cause that he went with her through all this vale of tears, discharged her debts, and bore her sins in his own body on the tree. For her sake he slept in the tomb, and with the same love that brought him down he has gone up again, and with the same heart beating true to the same blessed betrothment he has gone into the glory, waiting for the marriage day when he shall come again, to receive his perfected spouse, who shall have made herself ready by his grace. Never for a moment, whether as God over all, blessed forever, or as God and man in one divine person, or as dead and buried, or as risen and ascended, never has he changed in the love he bears to his chosen.
