Last week I got speaking to someone I didn’t know about things in general eventually, as always seems to be the case the subject turned to church and why I do what I do, now those questions are ones that I am quite used, however the conversation ended with a question which was new to me and which has over the past week been asked twice more, by two other people. What is the question I hear you cry? Well before I tell you that just a little extra information.
All three of these people have no personal knowledge of church, have never been except for the occasional wedding or baptism, none of them have attended a church funeral and their parents never went to church either. Why the background information? Well the question I was asked was if it was in it’s various forms - Can I just turn up at church on Sunday? Is it okay for me to go to church? and the most telling; Do I need to ask the priest first before I can go to a Sunday service?
I am sure these people are not alone, and there are many more who have only ever attended church when invited to a wedding or baptism, and therefore are unclear about if that goes for regular worship too. So why not invite someone to church this weekend, you never know it might be just what they were waiting for?
