KEYS TO MULTI-SITE HEALTH

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COMMUNITY MATTERS!

Okay so the next couple posts about the GRANITE UNIVERSE and MULTI-SITE will deal with how to maintain HEALTHY CAMPUSES, at least things we have discovered.  Trust me MULTI-SITE is not a one size fits all strategy thats for every church or every leader.  What is for every church and every leader is leading our ministries to be GREAT COMMANDMENT and GREAT COMMISSION CHURCHES those two things are non-negotioables.

I believe that one of the greatest factors to MULTI-SITE HEALTH is COMMUNITY.  We were created for community, we crave community and even JESUS lives in a perfect community called the TRINITY.  When JESUS became man he lives HIS life inside COMMUNITY.  When asked what the greatest thing w could do as FOLLOWERS OF GOD, JESUS replied LIVE IN COMMUNITY WITH GOD and CREATE COMMUNITY WITH OTHERS.

However what we discovered at GRANITE and must keep revisiting is that as much as we CRAVE COMMUNITY it doesn't happen unless we are INTENTIONAL about CREATING IT.  A few things we discovered about the VALUE OF COMMUNITY...

1.  COMMUNITY makes people feel CONNECTED
2.  COMMUNITY makes people feel VALUED
3.  COMMUNITY makes people feel NEEDED
4.  COMMUNITY makes people feel CARED for
5.  COMMUNITY ENCOURAGES people
6.  COMMUNITY keeps the FIRES OF MINISTRY burning (Prov. 26:20)
7.  COMMUNITY if FUN
8.  COMMUNITY keeps PASSION from turning into PRACTICE
9.  COMMUNITY keeps DEVOTION from turning into DUTY
10.  COMMUNITY is where COMMUNICATION happens

Okay I could go on and on but I won't, YOUR WELCOME!  So for our GRANITE LEADERS if COMMUNITY is that important how INTENTIONAL are we being about CREATING IT.  We have to CREATE it because COMMUNITY does not automatically happen without someone forming it.

As LEADERS lets put COMMUNITY as one of the top things WE PROVIDE for our teams!  You will never regret that you did, but you may regret that you didn't!  Come on somebody, woot, woot!

Next post will be ways and ideas on how to CREATE COMMUNITY!



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