Finding What They Want, What They Need.

Acts 20:28 ESV

Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

At a past congregation I served we had some folks that visited our church and they advised us that they were church shopping. At the end of the worship service they advised us what they were looking for in a church home, and what our church was unable to offer them.

Instead of trying to develop ways to get them to like our particular congregation, we directed them to a local congregation that would be a better fit for them and what they were needing in a church home.

Beloved, we hold no particular hold on people and no mandatory requirement that people attend our congregation. We are called to be shepherds of God’s flock, and sometimes this means shepherding the people to the guidance of another shepherd and their flock.

My prayer for you this week is that we as people of God will attend to the needs of His people before our own. My prayer is that we help others to truly find their way home, and that end up where God wants them instead of where we want them.

Whether or not our church or another church, the main item is that the person gets what they need. And yes, those searching for a church home, those searching for relationship are customers searching for the Father. Our task is to help them find the place that God is leading them to, instead of the amount of people filling pews with us on a Sunday morning. 

This is the Day That the Lord Has Made.