Welcoming people to church is a real ministry and, in fact, a really key ministry in the life of the church. The welcome people receive when they first come to church plays a huge role in how likely someone is to come back and in how likely they are to keep coming back and to partner with us.
To help convince you of this, Willie chats with Andrew Heard - senior pastor of EV church in Central Coast, Australia - and our own Josh Johnston about the theology behind Welcome as a ministry and some of the practical manifestations of this in ordinary church life.
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