Doors of Opportunity in Church

 

    A great door of opportunity in the church is small groups and children's ministry.  They are the back doors for connecting and getting people involved.  If the children get involved, then the parents are likely to start coming too.  Ministry and service for God don't have to be hard.  We are the ones that make it hard.

    Small groups are a great way to make connections with people in the church.  It is easier to live life with people that are going through the same things as you are.  Small groups are normally well organized.  If they are not at your church, then that may just be a door of opportunity for you to go in and give structure or organization for things to run smoother.  Either way, small groups is where 80% of church goers are that are involved in church.

    Children and youth ministry is the next generation door of opportunity to keep God alive in the home.  The target are from birth to 18.  Larger churches have a children's and a youth pastor, so that there is a God abiding adult focused just on the upcoming generations.

    If you want a family in church, statistics show that 94% start attending before the age 18.  Reaching people after 18 is much harder.  This means that the door of opportunity is small in this aspect of the church.  It is getting harder every year to get younger people into church.

    Doors of opportunity in the church that people do not think about is tithing.  It is an investment into God and Heaven.  It is a sign of obedience and genuine Christian heart.  You put your money where your heart is.  If your heart is not into God, then you will not tithe.  The gospel has a much harder time going out into the world without money invested into it.  People's tithes is also the only hope for the survival of a church building.

    Church may be built all around the family dynamic, but that does not mean that singles, widows, elderly, or the vulnerable do not have a place.  The church needs to make efforts to become a place where the non-family unit feel welcome and not just a worker.  If you are involved in your church, this could be a door of opportunity for you.  The need for ministry outside the family unit is growing.  The doors of opportunity are standing wide open for anyone who wants to enter them.

Luke 15:17-24, 1 Corinthians 16:1-9, 2 Corinthians 2:12-13, & Revelations 3:8-9