Right, let’s face it, the most important thing about Sunday morning is to pick up a copy of the weekly newsletter so that you know what exactly is going on in the life of the church for the rest of the week!

Aw, come on! The most important thing is face time with your (church) family, not something that you get a lot of on a Sunday morning (especially when the music/singing group decide to prevent all chat before kick off).

Anyway, living in the Internet era should enable us to not need to grab a hardcopy of the newsletter… well in theory anyway! In practice most churches aren’t net savvy enough to practice ‘push’ email where information is pushed to ‘consumers’ of said via email. So the alternative is to get a friend to pick up a copy for you.

Surely it is without doubt that every church recognises that there will be some who can rarely attend church, due to work or perhaps because they live elsewhere at the weekends…?

So, get along to prayer meetings, house group, meals, parties, mission presentations etc – that should give you your fill of face to face encounters with your brothers and sisters. If that isn’t enough then get yourself invited to people’s houses for meals, or babysit (and then refuse to leave when the parent’s get back!). Better still, invite others to your place or on holiday. Why not employ some of them?!

But I do recommend turning up on Sunday am once in a while. You never know, it may have changed…