“Love your neighbor.”

The best way to love your neighbors is to be a blessing for them, sharing the compassion of Jesus with everyone, and joining with those who are receptive in the journey of following Jesus, growing together, and training others to do the same. This is the design of Jesus. People come to Christ and multiply His impact by reaching more followers, growing together, all the while transforming the neighborhood, as He is transforming the neighbor.

How does a church community go about this? There are really two groups of people. Neighborhoods and networks. A neighborhood is a geographical group of people and a network is a group of people with a shared interest.

Your neighborhood is people who live where you live. Your network might be people who work with you, people who are connected to the same school (if you have school-aged children) as you are, people who share the same hobby, and such. Since a church community is made up of people of a variety of neighborhoods and networks, then neighborhood is wherever people connected to your church live. Network is where they make connections.

How do you begin this training?