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Originally Posted by PactumServa72  ESV John 13:34-35 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
I am happy to say, by God's grace, that my church is friendly and hospitable  |
Our congregation is also very warm and friendly, and it does have to do with loving one another.
It has been my observation with unfriendly congregations that they also tend to be very self-absorbed and clickish, not really wanting others to be a part of their "club" unless they want them there.
It can easily happen in churches when "we", the congregation, decide that we have a corner on the truth so we are slightly better than everyone else. The new person, then, becomes a threat to the status quo, and so people become unwelcoming and unfriendly.
