Thought for the week

I MUST have had about 30 emails asking me not to lose touch.

The new general data protection regulations require companies and organisations to gain permission from their customers to agree that they may continue to use their contact details to ‘keep in touch’.

So I have been inundated with requests to continue to keep in contact with organisations which deem my support to be important. At first I found this to be a real nuisance and grudgingly completed my information. Then I stopped to think about it.

It obviously matters to the many organisations and charities I support that we ‘keep in touch’.

So I have completed data for many organisations I feel are important including Amnesty International, Avaaz, 38 Degrees, Greenpeace, WWF, Save the Elephants, Dogs Trust, Compassion in World Farming, Refugee Council, Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament and many more. These organisations want me ‘to keep in touch’.

I wonder if we, in the church, are as keen ‘to keep in touch’ with those who have drifted from the church.

Do we write or speak to those who have left us to ask them ‘to keep in touch’ because we value them? Do we make them feel they are missed and that we want to renew and continue our relationship? Do we call them by name and ask if we can ‘keep in touch’ with them?

Do people drift from our church family and we do nothing about it?

Could we take a lead from this current theme and seek out those who have left us?

God will never let us go and will always send the equivalent of a heavenly email to ask us ‘to keep in touch’.

Could we do the same ?