How to Help Guests Feel Welcome in God’s House, Pt.8

7. Give Away FREE STUFF

Giving away free resources and gifts is one way of showing guests that we appreciate them and their willingness to investigate the spirituality of Jesus at our church and hopefully to encourage them to come back again – where they can experience Jesus on a hole nutha level!

We love giving away FREE STUFF because it helps to brand Jesus & His Church as GIVERS instead of takers (which is clearly the biblical view on Jesus & the mission of his Church).  Many unchurched people think that God and His Church are simply on the TAKE.  But that just isn’t true, GOD IS A GIVER, NOT A TAKER – and we are here to prove that one GUEST at a time!

Giving away free stuff, especially to guests, is such a fun and simple way to demonstrate God’s HUGE HEART OF GENEROSITY.  TheDC has learned this art of generosity from watching other amazing churches here in New England and around the country.   Every week we get to give away FREE STUFF, not just to our guests but to regular attenders, members, and those who have never even attended our church.  We give away free SERMONS online, free bibles, free books, free food, free coffee, free literature, free t-shirts ALL IN AN EFFORT TO COMMUNICATE AND DEMONSTRATE WITH GREAT CLARITY THE JESUS OF THE BIBLE – HE IS A GIVER, NOT A TAKER!

We see churches in the New Testament giving to the poor, giving to other churches, giving to one another and giving to the mission of spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ!  As a 3 year old church plant we have experienced all of those things; our mother church GraniteUnited.com has really led the way in teaching and modeling for us what it means to GIVE GENEROUSLY, as they never ceased to bless us and bless all of God’s churches all over New England and around the world!  May we cultivate the same kind of God-hearted generosity!