A few months ago I received a letter from my branch church inviting me to a meeting in the interest of improving the outreach of our church.
It was a good letter, and I was enjoying it until I came to the paragraph enumerating our "outreach activities": lectures, Reading Room, Sunday School, Monitor advertising and circulation, literature distribution—but not our church services.
I found myself asking, "Why don't we consider our services as outreach? Do we think that church services are just for us?"
