Being A Member – Did You Get The Right Idea?

Did they get the right idea of what the offer is?

Have you ever subscibed to something or became a member of something because of a really attractive offer and then when the novelty wore off, you almost forgot about it completely until something would pop up to remind you of what you signed up to? Being around it was interesting for that offer and for a brief while and maybe a few other elements were alright, but overall other things proved to be of more interest and you didn’t want to follow through with any requirements. Some of them have that lovely offer of trialing the service for a month and it’s great for the first week or so, then by the end of the second week it is not on your radar, so it’s a good thing you get the reminder email in the fourth week, so you can cancel that subscription.

To a degree, I think being a part of church can have that appeal to it at first. After a while it can lose that novelty aspect and it’s really interesting to see how we respond to that. Some people have just got accustomed to it like it’s part of the furniture. It’s apart of their weekly routine. It’s what they do. They show up and pay up and all that.

It’s a nominal thing though. It’s routine, but if they might as well have cancelled the subscription. Is it their fault though? All their fault? Or was there something in the glitzy gimmick that failed to tell them what they were being a part of? Were they promised a free holiday to heaven? Were they really told how this membership of the church worked?

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For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden