Neighborhood Relationship & Connection Building

What do you like about your community or neighborhood?

What would you like to see different in your neighborhood?

What groups are you involved in within your neighborhood?

What do you like to do with your hands?

What knowledge do you have that you might be willing to share with others in your neighborhood?

What do you feel passionate about in your neighborhood?

As the days go by, people in our country, the United States, seem as though they are getting into the habit and feel most comfortable living in isolation from even their closest neighbors. Some people will have the same neighbors living next door for years and they don’t even know each other. Sometimes, the closest you see is just a wave of a hand or a quick smile at each other at a distance and that is all. Houses are built with fenced yards and garages where people come in from work and drive right into their garage and shut the door behind them. We see that sometimes people are comfortable with family and old friendships and see a home as something personal rather than connected to a neighborhood and there is no other connection with others in their neighborhood. What do you think is God’s vision for your closest community, your neighborhood?

It is obvious that most people want to be relational with one another, but they just don’t know how to go about it. Many have the potential to be relational, but they have decided to live in isolation, or they are living a life of, “I don’t want anyone in my business.” They feel it is not right, and that it is weird to just walk up to someone in the neighborhood and say “hi” and get to know them. Another barrier might be feeling like others might judge them for reaching out or feeling inadequate.

But the question is, how can we help each other in the way of the Lord if we continue to live in isolation among ourselves in our neighborhood?

A community is not just people living together in the same geographic area. They must have many things in common to be a true community.

What would Jesus want them to have in common in order to be a community of believers?

Is having Jesus in their lives the ultimate thing they should have in common in their neighborhoods?

Is speaking alike the ultimate thing they should have in common in their neighborhoods?

Is doing things alike the ultimate thing they should have in common in their neighborhoods?

PARTNER WITH US AS WE WORK TOGETHER TO CALL TO ACTION ALL BELIEVERS TO SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS WHOLISTICALLY IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS.