Counsels on Relationships

Counsel #13 — Reconnect

Picture: Counsel #13 — Reconnect CR 44.1

What if part of your purpose wasn’t just to grow in your faith, but to help someone else find a way back to theirs? There are so many former church members, especially young adults, who’ve stopped attending church. Not always because they stopped believing, but because they felt disconnected, forgotten, judged, or out of place. Some may have been baptized during an evangelistic series and never fully plugged in, while others could have drifted away quietly, unnoticed. CR 44.2

That’s where you come in. You don’t have to preach - just be present! Invite them to a church social, a Sabbath School hangout, or even a casual lunch. Let them know they’re seen, missed, and valued, not just as a former church member, but as a friend. Sometimes what people need most isn’t a sermon—it’s someone who genuinely cares. You can be that bridge. So, make it your mission to reconnect. Helping someone feel like they belong again might be exactly what brings them back. Not just to church, but to Jesus.^[44] CR 44.3

“Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.” Luke 15:6 NIV CR 44.4

“The greatest work on earth is to seek and to save those who are lost…” Ellen White in Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 161 CR 44.5

Reflect: Have you reached out to anyone who’s been missing lately? CR 44.6