Who’s involved in your online community? These are the people who are not just coming to your site, but they are the people who keep coming back.

Where is the community? Scattered. That’s the beauty of the internet. They can be geographically scattered. The traditional definition of community has changed because of the internet. Now a community is based on interest or other similarities. Community is no longer restricted to geographic similarity.

Why have a community? Because you don’t want people to just come once and leave. The point of having a web ministry is so you can minister, right? You don’t want to just share a truth with them once and that’s it. You want to move them further down their spiritual walk. This happens when they come back. Also in a community, others are now involved in your ministry. It’s no longer you to them, but everyone together.

How do you create a community? There are a lot of ideas out there about how to create an online community. Here’s an article listing 10 ways to do it. There’s several other tips and ideas out there. Look around…and come back here as I’m sure someone will comment on them and/or I’ll add them later.