If you think of your meeting as being on a cul-de-sac you would understand that you have three types of people driving in front of your door: those who live there, those who are visiting; and those who are looking for someplace else. You don’t get much through traffic on a cul de sac and few people actually pass by it by mistake. Especially today with GPS/webpage availability.

If you have a Healthy Meeting you probably are not on a cul-de-sac. A healthy meeting is located on a through street where people can get to other places from there. A healthy meeting would be next to a popular restaurant where people can satisfy their appetites, whether they have a hunger for spiritual knowledge or community service. It would be across the street from a shopping mall where people could shop for clothes to see what ministries fit them and what is the latest things God is shipping to His people. It would be near a fitness center where they could get in shape for leading the kind of life a servant leads.

In other words the more your meeting can be a place that provides people with access to the heart’s desires God has placed in them, the healthier your meeting will be. God loves to nourish His people and as the heart’s GPS is not going to direct them to a cul-de-sac which after all is just a dead end with room to make a u-turn