John’s Letter I, Chapters I, 9-10
“I’m alive, that’s all.” Pastor Yasumitsu Kuni
Welcome to Sunday. Welcome Sunday is a Sunday of “welcome” (Japanese: welcoming), a service that the church welcomes for the first time. If you say this, someone might say this. “If today is a welcome day, is it only today that the first person can come, and other Sundays can’t come?” That’s never the case. Everyone is welcome to every service held here every week. Not only those who are enthusiastic about Christianity, but also those who are not very familiar with Christianity or who have other religions are welcome. As for age, anyone from old age to a baby is welcome. There is no age limit to worship, and there is no need for any special qualifications.
The reason why it is “Welcome Sunday” is that for the first time in the church, there are many things that are difficult to understand, the atmosphere is difficult to get used to, and hymns are difficult to get along with. If you are attending a Christian school or graduated from a Christian school, I think you can somehow get in. But if you don’t have that experience, I think it’s hard to get used to; it’s hard to get used to; it’s hard to get used to; it’s hard to get used to. Religion is difficult to accept in our society in the first place, and the word “god” appears a lot in worship, so I think people who are not familiar with it often feel that they cannot keep up with it for the first time.
Therefore, our church has a welcome Sunday for those people, hoping to make the most obscure obvious, familiar, familiar, and familiar, and bring the peace and joy of the service to them. I hope that Welcome Sunday will be an opportunity for you to relieve even a little of the difficult and formal feelings of worship and to feel the peace that is given in worship.