2020 was a year of disruption for local congregations like none I have experienced in my lifetime.
I won’t bore you with the laundry list. We’ve all been living it. And then came last Wednesday.
But what can we do about all the challenges we are facing?
My #1 recommendation heading into 2021? Double your investment in facilitating friendships among your people.
How do you re-connect your disconnected congregation members?
How do you reach the unreached people in the neighborhoods where your members live?
How do you help reconcile members estranged from each other because of politics?
How do you connect the people showing up on your Digital Campus for effective discipleship?
How do you provide care for all the hurting people looking to your congregation for hope?
How do you help people actually experience the “one another” passages of the New Testament and not just study them?
Getting to the solution-side of all these challenges begins with relationship. That’s why my #1 recommendation for 2021 is to double your investment in facilitating friendships… both within the congregation and then out into the neighborhoods. You can stay focused on one strategic goal but see many strategic benefits.
How can you facilitate friendships?
It requires clarity, priority and intentionality. But it’s simpler than you think. For years, Dwelling 1:14 has been helping congregations implement what we call “The Connect Strategy” as part of our “Joining Jesus” training process. The goal is for the congregation to have a new priority on facilitating friendships for the sake of supporting each other in mission, ministry and discipleship.
When the pandemic hit, the congregations that were already engaging this strategy have seen their relational connectedness actually increase during the last ten months.
It can happen at your church, too.
Please give me a call or drop me an email so we can start the conversation.
Greg FInke
281-844-7644