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Joining Up The Dots

March 26, 2008

Recently I was reminded of an old game that I grew up playing in years gone by. It was a children’s connect-the-dots game: in which participants answered general-interest questions to connect dots that made a portrait of a famous or historical personage.
 
As questions were successfully answered and the dots began to be joined together a clear picture usually of something recognisable began to emerge.

Prior to the start of the process the dots looked like a group of unrelated marks, with only at best the most tenuous of relationships. Then suddenly the picture began to come to life as the dots were joined up.

Over recent months it has been evident that God has blessed us with evidence of his power at work raising up ministries and changing lives.

However if the effectiveness of our current activity is to rise there has to be an increased level of connectedness I felt I heard God say to me it was time to join up the dots.

We can join up the dots if we have joined up thinking if we develop that we can have joined up speaking, if we have that we can have joined up partnerships and relationships working to produce joined up solutions.

Leadership determines the direction. If we can support and get behind that Organisation determines the potential of what we do. But personnel determine the success of the activity; this gives us a perfect picture of unity. Psalm 133 reminds us that unity is very special .God cannot resist it but the enemy can. Therefore he is often at work trying to undermine this particularly precious blessing.

As we enter into the first weeks of a new year it is my belief that God wants to be at work amongst us joining up the dots of spiritual activity that are evident in the vision and corporate life of not just this church but our city as a whole and in this nation.

My prayer is that we as a people might truly be joined together in such a way that the message that God wants to proclaim through us is expressed with great clarity and effectiveness. May you have a great new year and flourish in all that God has for you. 

- William Prentice, Pastor

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