Featured Meet & Greet

As a visitor, I thought of it as a good way to get a first impression of the spirit of the church body.

 

I've been to a few churches like that.

I'm not a huge fan of the meet-n-greet. I'm a shy and reserved person by nature, and I feel like I'm forced to interact with the people. Let me decide when and how to say hello and interact with the people of the church I'm visiting / attending.

 

I would regard visiting a new church in the same way I would visit a car lot while car shopping. I would prefer anonymity with an opportunity to check things out before getting friendly with the salesman. Frankly it's a turnoff to have everyone coming up to you being "friendly." I prefer watching you for awhile before getting to know you. If I want to interact with you I will make the first move.

 

So there are some folks who want everyone at church to ignore them until they say so. Rejecting the friendly gestures of folks at church is a sign of some issues that most likely need to be dealt with with a counselor.

 

That's their right, but you have a problem with them. Who are you to decide they will be bothered when you say so? You need to respect others wishes and desires.

Some people just don't want to be confronted and wish to worship unmolested. Some don't want to be involved in a corporate exchange pushed on them at the worship service. This is not to say they will reject someone personally approaching them without being sicked on them by someone in the pulpit at a set time. That you say these need counselling due to the fact they don't like your approach is absurd.

 

Overstated and over simplistic.


(My bold)

 

Have we forgotten:

Mark 1:17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.

Greet them!

HankD

 

That would definitely make people feel more comfortable.

 

So church is about the right of the people? Isn't that what "Laodicea" means "the rights of the people?" Or justice of the people? Wasn't that the church that Christ wanted to spew out of
His mouth?

 

Look, there are people who are offended if no one talks to them and there are those who are offended if someone does. These two positions are diametrically opposed and the church cannot in any form meet the desires of both. It has to be one or the other.

Being that this is a given we then need to figure out what is best. The latter of the two are a smaller portion of people who have some issues. It is a shame that people are offended by people wanting to be friendly to them. As in introvert I can tell you it has nothing to do with being shy.

Churches should be friendly in every way they can. People moving around and greeting each other must be done some time in a church gathering whether it is before the service, during the service, or afterwards. To have someone come in and never approach them or greet them ever is unfathomable. Neither can anyone read the minds of those who have issues.

hey guess what. if you are going to go out in public someone might actually say "Hello!" If that is too much for you then there are counselors to deal with that. It is not healthy.

 

The church at Laodicea was a problem because they were ineffective. Laodicea was the name of the town where the church was. It was not a reflection of the people in the church.

 

So Christ wanted to spew them out His mouth because they didn't want to be corporately greeted, raise their hand to acknowledge they're visiting?

You're misusing a passage to say people have no right to not be molested corporately, and therefore you want to reserve the right to be in their face? Let's see, you probably think it's your right to offend others, correct? lol...unreal...

You never fail to amaze with your abuse and misuse of Scriptures.

 

But look at how they were acting, like warm, neither cold nor hot. They talked about themselves pridefully. They said we are rich, they had no need for God. Proud and self-righteous and so that in their minds was their right. Isn't that what we see in many churches today?

 

No he wanted to spew them out of his mouth because they were lukewarm. Prideful and wanting their way not His way. We are told greet each other Paul said with a holy kiss in 1 Corinthians 16:20, 2 Corinthians 13:12, 1 Thessalonians 5:26. Then Peter said the same thing In 1 Peter 5:14. Seems the apostles thought it necessary to greet people. Yet when folks see that it is the right of the people to not be greeted, then what scripture commands doesn't matter and that was the Laodecian church and its lukewarmness and we see that in many churches today.

 

Could you explain how you think that it is a right? I do not understand.

Thanks.

 

He took the meaning of the name of the people in the church in Laodicea to be "the right of the people". I have no idea where he got that definition but anyway he has taken that unsubstantiated definition and applied it to the church in Laodicea and this to today's church.