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GOING PLACES
The other day I stumbled upon this rather innocuous quote – “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before” (Life’s Little Instruction Book). Obviously, this quote is talking about travel, but I would like us to think of it as challenging ourselves to do things that we may have never done before. So, let’s take a look at some things that might help us, as a church, go places that we may have never been before:
- Volunteer to teach a class, or help teach a class, or help teach others how to teach a class
- Offer to pick up someone who needs a ride to church
- Get a list of visitors and visit them
- Pray with an elder
- Commit to visit all the shut-ins this year
- Write a note of encouragement to all our members whose last name begins with a particular letter
- Host a devotional for: the teens, the young professionals, the young families, the
tweeners, the seniors - Teach the congregation a new song, or an old song we don’t know
- Stand at one of the doors and greet everyone who comes in
This is just a short list of some places we might have never been before, I’m sure there are other places that we all would like to try and go to. And if we start to think “I can’t do that”, let me remind us of what God tells us in Joshua 1:9: “Have I not commanded, you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
