Why Invite People to Services?

by Phil Sanders

From The Reminder, January 29, 2012

Though 85 percent of Americans call themselves Christians, only 69 percent regard themselves as church members.  Only 43 percent will attend church on a given Sunday.  Another 22 percent will attend occasionally.  Only 22 percent of Americans attend Bible classes on Sunday mornings.  There are now 79 million “unchurched” people in America.

Many of these people are “notional” Christians.  They claim to be Christians but do not practice their Christianity by church attendance.  These are people who need a church home.

Why do they need a church home?  For the same reasons you do.  They need the spiritual help and climate going to church provides.  They need to hear the scripture preached and to remember the Lord’s death in His supper.  They need to praise the Lord in song and to pray about their needs.  They need the Lord’s help and teaching from week to week.

They also need a church home because we all need our brothers and sisters in Christ.  Life has a way of handing us surprises.  It means so much to have the support of loving brothers and sisters who will pray with us and for us when we need them.  Solomon was right when he said that “two are better than on” (Ecclesiastes 4:9).  There is strength in numbers, and brothers and sisters assure our hearts when they walk beside us in serving the Lord.  “Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend” (Proverbs 27:17).

Surely you know someone who needs a church home.  Won’t you help them?  Bring them to the Lord. “Come and see.”  John 1:46.