What would get non-Christians to give church a chance?

Question

My question is, why would people not interested in God, Jesus, or religion, feel the need to set foot in a church. The visa -versa- What would get Christians to a strip bar? (just an example)

Strip bar example might have been offending to some-not meant to be. It is used as an example. The angle I was going for is kind of like Wal-Mart- the CEO's ask what would get people in our stores. The strip bar owners need the best looking girls. The bars need the atmosphere and beer. The restaurants need the food. The churches need...

Answer 1

churches need to get off this membership drive. If god was real and undeniable and all your horseshit actually worked for you, people would be flocking to your churches, banging down your doors, and calling you day and night-THEY'RE NOT!!! they're not interested either--nobody is nagging and hounding me to go to a strip bar--they don't even need to advertise. The harder you try to get people into YOUR cult, the less they want to. Familiarity breeds contempt and we are very familiar with you. You know churches actually used to help people in need, give teens something to do, and bring communities together. Maybe if churches did what they used to do--WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO--they'd have the congregations they used to as well.

P.S. I don't pay for my god

Answer 2

If you are looking for a chance to spread the word, you should try it on the people in the middle. You can get an interesting debate from an atheist, but the target should be the people that say 'I believe in God, but don't go to church or read the Bible'. You might be able to show them the value of religion--especially if there aren't too many people in the congregation you are taking them to who are completely full of __it.

FOS people are the big turn-off to church, not God. If Christians would behave like Jesus and befriend the sinners, instead of looking down their nose at them (while saying 'I hate sin, not the sinner'), they'd have a chance of convincing them. Unfortunately, most churches have at least one loud, gossipy, very FOS person who makes people uncomfortable to be there. So they don't go and when they do, they don't come back.

To get a Christian to a strip club, tell him you have to preach to the sinners there, and the girls will only talk to you if you get a lap dance! See if he can last fifteen minutes without getting kicked out or leaving.

Answer 3

I think the problem lies in the generalized structures of churches today. Many people crave spirituality, but are repulsed by "the church." I am a Christian, but I do not believe in or participate in organized religion. Someone not interested in spirituality would have no reason to even be interested in a church unless they sought to de-bunk it or find fault within it in some way.

So, my answer to the general question of getting people to go to church who are not interested in "religion" is to make church less about fitting into a certain type of social box and more about making people feel accepted and comfotable exploring their spirituality witohut fear of being judged or rejected for their looks, status, or upbrining.

And there are plenty of Christians who go to strip clubs unfortunately. Hence my reasoning behind staying away from organized religion. Christians are not perfect, but in a 'church' setting they are expected to act like they are. It is morally wrong to go to a strip club, but that doesn't mean that once a person is saved that their desire for such things is gone...we are all still sinners regardless of where we have chosen to spend eternity

Answer 4

Well, I ended up stepping foot in a church because my mom would tell me to get out of bed and get in the car so we could go to church. I was never really interested.

And your analogy about a strip bar is totally skewed. I am not religious, yet I have no interest in strip clubs. Where do I fit in your equation?

Answer 5

hey, i liked the strip bar comment. haha... i understand.

people might be more inclined to enter a church if the people who are regular church-goers didn't completely change personalities in and out of church. i have often found that people who go to church act like they are really pure and Godly while in church, but the minute they leave church and go to the mall where i work, they act like complete jerks. how hypocritical.

so, suppose people "stop being fake and start getting real" when they walk into church. just being themselves is good!!!

ok, so that would get more people into church... (oh yeah, and better music helps too)

as for getting Christians into a strip bar... if they are out of church, they will admit to it...

Answer 6

Why don't you realize that each person will make their own decision? It's one of the worst things in the world when some one tries to change somebody else's mind. Church isn't for everybody. If a church has a low turn out then so be it I say. That's how things are going, maybe more people will come, maybe they won't, but it's nobodies place to try to force people into that church.

Answer 7

Usually what gets someone to step into a church that normally wouldn't is something terrible happening in their life that might actually doubt that they are not Gods themselves. As they say, there are no atheist in the foxholes of war or critical care hospital units.

What would get a Christian into a bar might be something quite similar. Something that caused the person to completely doubt their faith so they might go on some sort of binge doing all those things they only heard about or read about before.

Answer 8

Well, I'm thinking there are MANY more self-professed "Christians" in strip bars than nonbelievers in church!
I might consider going to a church if it were nondenominational or if there were really NO hypocrits in it. To be a Christian means to be like Christ. I don't know many who really are except my dad. Condeming people for being gay or having premarital sex or drinking or whatever is just NOT like Christ. Not many of them really consider WHAT WOULD JESUS DO - they just think he'd do the same as they'd do!!

Answer 9

there are non-Christian churches or holy houses or synagogues
out there . . . who says Christians don't go to strip bars . .

I'd give church a chance if it wasn't so full of people that want to tell you everything you do is not "right" and charge you for it . . the last church I thought about joining wanted a percentage of my income ??? I'd rather give it to the stripper at least he's entertaining me instead of telling me how I should think

Answer 10

well i do not believe in, well i wont say god or jesus, but i am definatly not interested in religion i would say i am interested in spirituality and wisdom. and because of that i have read the bible much mostly the stuff that jesus himself said and i find great wisdom init regardless of if i believe in him or not.
as for why a cristian would step into a strip club, well there is no magical cure for temptation and people are people no matter what religion they are and everyone slips and falls sometimes.