Do you invite people to your church?

David Foster writes, "Why do the people attending your church not invite other people to come to the experience? If people in your church are not inviting people, they are not inviting people on purpose. We think they are intimidated, but they are not. They know very well how to invite people to great stuff. They do it all the time.

You take an average person who goes to a great concert; it’s very easy for that person to invite someone to the next one. He went and had a great experience. He was moved, he was touched, it was a great value, and it was worth the time and the effort. He knows that his friend is going to benefit from it and he'’s going to thank him afterward. So he invites him enthusiastically. They make the date, they plan, they spend the money, they anticipate. We’re really good at inviting people to places that we love going and knowing there’s a benefit at the end.

So at the end of the day, maybe what you should be more focused on is helping your people love to come and to understand the benefit that others may have who come after them. Maybe people aren'’t inviting people to your church because they aren’'t that enthusiastic about it either.

So what does this say about why people don't invite people to their church. I think it says their church is either not exciting, not relevant to the needs of their friends and neighbors, or does a hokey job of trying to pull off a relevant exciting church. I also think it says a lot about knowing who you're trying to reach and what it is you need to do to make the experience exciting for them, because they will go back and invite their friends and they will invite their friends and so on and so on... And of course you need to spend the money to do it right because we are competing with a creative enemy... and our God did it top notch when He created the universe, so we should too.