Who are You Inviting? — part 2

We’d talked briefly at an event at a church. He was a 20-something guy, I was just some old guy. We had a couple of things in common, including, I assumed, the church where some of his family members were active. My attachment to that congregation was tangential at best.

We stayed kind of in touch, comparing notes on a couple of topics of interest to us both. Eventually we found a time for lunch that was free on both of our calendars.

In the course of a conversation filled with laughter and heavy topics in a noisy diner, he told me about his church.

How much he loved it.

How accepting the people were.

How he was growing in his faith.

And how it was that he started going there, since it wasn’t his family’s church. In fact, he said it was nothing like his family’s church, the church where I’d met him at an event.

He’d started going to this other church because “a buddy from work invited me.”

Let’s you and me review the question that’s my title here from yesterday and today.