Where Community Begins.

The kingdom of God benefits when people in the church get connected to each other. It goes something like this: you set up Connecting Points in your church. People in your church sign up and are trained to lead a connecting point based on something that they love to do. Other people in the church who have similar interests (who love the same things) join with them and they connect by participating in the same connecting point. They become fast friends because of what they have in common. Soon they catch the vision for Connecting Points and begin to invite pre-Christians in their own sphere of influence who have similar interests. They get connected and become a part. That is where the Holy Spirit takes over. Can you see how this will transform your church? Everyone in your church is passionate about something. People are different. What one loves, another loathes. You may love sports. Someone else may love to shop. (God help them!) The point is everybody loves something. People are going to be doing what they love to do. Connecting Points shows them how to do what they are going to be doing anyway and do it for the Lord. What a concept. Just being what God made them to be and doing what God made them to do—that becomes their ministry. People love what they love and enjoy what they enjoy because God made them that way. I believe that God made them that way, on purpose, because He wants to use those interests and passions to connect with others. What a wonderful thought. Everybody in your church connecting with each other and with pre-Christians by just doing what they are going to do anyway. There could be as many different Connecting Points as there are interests in your church. You can’t believe how many there are. Now it is getting exciting—people in our church connecting with each other around common interests and passions! This is where community begins. You cannot have real community by staring at the back of a person's head for an hour and a half each week in church. Connecting Points positions people face to face. They have something in common on day one because they are connected around similar interests.