First impressions are important. You will never get a second chance to make a first impression. The way that I learned this on vacation was dealing with hotels. What I noticed at one hotel that we dealt with on vacation – and had a bad experience with was the following:
No one smiled – they did not act as if they were happy to be where they were. If they are not happy where they are, what are the chances that I will be happy where they are?
No one smiled – they did not act excited that we had chosen their hotel from all of the other choices that were available.
They acted inconvenienced - they acted put out that they had to pay us attention, to register us, to give us keys to our rooms.
They acted inconvenienced – they had to deal with us and others who were not happy with what we had received for our money.
In our churches today, we can not afford to make bad first impressions. A bad first impression on our part may mean someone walks away without hearing the gospel because they have already formed an opinion before the message comes. When people arrive at our churches – we should be smiling when we greet them to show that we are excited about where we are and that they have chosen our group to join for part of the day. We need to go out of our way to make visitors feel that we are happy to be of service to them and their family.
First impressions are important to the person that you are meeting and to the kingdom that we are supposed to be growing.
Until next time – keep your eyes on Jesus and greet people the same way that you would greet an angel. Who knows – maybe they are.
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