Greet One Another (With Name Badges!)
Do you sit in the same pew every Sunday? Most of us do. Hopefully, you’ve met those who sit in your section, but how well do you know the folks on the other side of the auditorium?
It’s important for us to get to know each other. We’re on the same team, and it’s hard to support your team if you aren’t familiar with your teammates!
The next time you’re at Northside, I want to challenge you to find five people you don’t know and introduce yourself. And to make it easier on them, wear your name badge, If you haven’t been wearing it lately, here are three reasons you should get back in the habit:
- It makes it easier for new people and long-time members to meet each other.
- It helps anyone call you by name, even when they don’t know or can’t remember your name.
- Studies show that communication is improved between people who know each other’s name. This is especially true in large churches where people interact regularly with others they haven’t met.
To support my point that we need to wear our name badges, see how many of the Northsiders below you can identify. (Answers are printed upside down at the bottom of the article.) If you don’t know all of them, that means THEY need to wear their name badges to help you out. But then again, how many of THEM know YOU? Maybe you should wear YOURS, too!
