Love God. Love Your Neighbor. Jesus called these the two most important commandments of all time. When He said this, He was making something clear to His listeners then as He does now: in life, it all boils down to our relationships. Using the example of LEGO®, a company that has been transforming the way people play for more than fifty years, Joey Bonifacio shows you how to make a difference, one connection at a time.

1. The LEGO Principle:
The Power of
Connecting to God
and One Another

2. Source text: http://27gen.com/2013/06/05/the-lego-principle/

3. Regardless of the
shape, size, or color
of a LEGO brick,
each one is designed
to do just one
thing: connect.
LEGO pieces are
designed to connect at the top with
studs and the bottom with tubes.
The LEGO
Principle

4. Like LEGO, if you can connect
to the top with God and
to the bottom with others,
you can pretty much shape
the world you live in.
The LEGO
Principle

5. Not all LEGO pieces have
the same ability to connect.
Some have the capacity to
connect with as many as 12
or more bricks while others
are limited. There are
pieces that can connect to
only 1 other brick.
But each piece has the
capacity to connect.
The LEGO
Principle

6. Every believer has the
ability to connect directly
to God and to others.
The LEGO
Principle

7. The LEGO
Principle
Each LEGO brick comes with studs that
give it the ability to connect. Every stud
has the LEGO trademark engraved on it,
a symbol of trust.
Others have tried to copy LEGO bricks but
have been unsuccessful. Their studs did
not connect as well.

8. Like trusted LEGO bricks,
we connect best when
we are the real thing.
The LEGO
Principle

9. The LEGO
PrincipleTwo eight-stud LEGO bricks
can be combined in 24 ways.
Three eight-stud bricks can be combined
in 1,060 ways. Six eight-stud bricks can
be combined in 102,981,500 ways.
With eight bricks the possibilities are
virtually endless.

10. Just like LEGO bricks,
using love to connect
with people has
endless possibilities.
The LEGO
Principle

11. The LEGO
PrincipleSomething was missing: people.
In 1974 LEGO began making people,
starting with the LEGO family. These mini
figures soon became the biggest-selling
product, enjoyed by both boys and
girls. Several billion of these
figures have been built to date.
LEGO realized that people love
people. What good is a world
without people?

12. To the degree that
we value and love people
will we engage our
community and culture.
The LEGO
Principle

13. The LEGO
Principle
LEGO bricks are built to connect multi-
generationally. That means bricks made in
the 1950s connect just as well with those
made in 2013. Connecting bricks made
decades apart is not a problem.

14. When people make disciples
through relationships,
generational, traditional,
and denominational
differenced fall by the
wayside.
The LEGO
Principle