Getting Started

Well lets get started shall we. Base one, its all about relationships - getting to know one another. Without that there is unlikely to be any community, and without that the Kingdom will surely not be the Kingdom.

But for relationships we need a scarce commodity - time.

Spending quality time together is going to figure highly. Sorry, no quick fixes here. In fact there really is no substitute. In practice there are many ways of doing this: nowadays a natural setting is the coffee shop, but equally talking over a pint can be effective. For some, doing an activity together might make more sense, and on occasions going with someone through a specific difficulty may be required. In all cases the key is being in an environment where you can touch on and share in each other's worlds. The ability to understand what makes someone tick, and what their typical week involves, opens the way to be able to ask the question 'Where does God fit in all this?'.

From that one short question, all kinds of possibilities can crop up ...