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Do You Worship Your Church? 4 Questions You Need to Ask

3. You treat visitors like they have the cooties.

You don’t come to church to meet visitors, you come to see your friends. You might occasionally say hello or make polite conversation with a visitor, but you don’t try very hard to get to know them.

You are not looking for new friends. Visitors often feel like they are eavesdropping on your conversation.

It doesn’t bother you too much when visitors don’t come back.

You get how God loves you and your friends, but you have trouble getting how much God loves other people.

Sadly, we deny God’s impartial love for us when we fail to show impartial love to others (James 2:8-9).

4. You treat visitors like they are “the only single girl in a room full of ready-to-marry bachelors.”

Your face lights up when you see a new visitor at church. Your mission is to convince them to come back next Sunday.

You want the visitor to get to know your church more than you want to get to know the visitor. You are warm and friendly, but visitors feel used and smothered. When you find out they are visiting from out of town or they are not really looking for a church, you lose interest.

You are crushed when visitors don’t come back. You get how God loves other people, but you have trouble getting how much God loves you.

The more you try to “get love” from visitors (by convincing them to come back), the less you love them.

You will never be satisfied in the security of God’s grace until you stop trying to find security in the validation of other people (Gal. 6:9-10).

What are some of the ways you have seen people hurt by the church?

What are some of the ways you have hurt people by worshiping your church?