Newcomers Archives - JourneyOnline https://journeyonline.com.au/tag/newcomers/ Thu, 06 Nov 2014 00:30:07 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://journeyonline.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cropped-Journey-Logo-With-UCA-logo_Site-identity_Artboard-2_Artboard-2-copy-32x32.png Newcomers Archives - JourneyOnline https://journeyonline.com.au/tag/newcomers/ 32 32 Five things first-time guests hate doing at church https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/five-things-first-time-guests-hate-church/ https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/five-things-first-time-guests-hate-church/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2014 00:29:55 +0000 http://journeyonline.com.au/?p=19742 Are you unknowingly driving newcomers away? American pastor and author, Dale Hudson has named and shamed five things first-time guests hate doing at church on Christian news site, ChurchLeaders.com. The perceptive list includes: not making people wait in line, poor signage, being ignored, being singled out and bad parking. Personally I think bad coffee should ...

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