How’s Your Health? A church must be healthy to grow. Use these questions to assess you church’s well being. Donald Bubna, Keith Walker, and Jim VanYperen
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For each question, circle the number that best applies to your church—with 1 meaning, "We haven't thought about it yet," and 5 meaning, "We are in good shape in this area."
Scoring—total the numbers you circled.85–100 You are a healthy church. 70–84 You are well on the road to health. 55–69 Don't stop now; you have things working for you. 40–54 You need some work, but ...
Growing a Good Name A reputation never stands still. What direction is yours moving? John Beukema
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Cultivating a reputation that glorifies God takes work. Measure your church in these five areas, and then give an example of how you're doing in each category below.
Are We Caring for Our Property?Certainly there are more pressing aspects of ministry, but a battered sign, overgrown hedges, peeling paint, or burned-out lights send the wrong message to the neighbors. We cannot ignore our visible presence ...
Multiplying Ministers Church growth is not just bigger churches, but more churches with higher participation. George Mallone
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In our church, we decentralized ministry to equip as many people as possible. The development is visible on four levels: personal, small group, congregational, and citywide.
Rate your church in each of the categories below on a scale of 1 (We equip people well in this area) to 5 (We do not equip people in this area).
The Basement—Personal and Family DevelopmentIn any building, the foundation ...
Are You Fulfilling Your Mission? It's not enough to collect a crowd. You've got to make disciples. Larry Crabb, Randy Frazee, Ken Fong,George Gallup, and Dallas Willard
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It's hard to quantify spiritual growth. But the church's task is not only to grow in size, but also to make disciples. The following questions were adapted from an interview with Larry Crabb, Randy Frazee, Ken Fong, George Gallup, and Dallas Willard. The topic of the interview was assessing spiritual maturity. Rate how often your church practices each of the steps below.
Church members form the core of a congregational care system. Here are several congregation-based strategies that can help meet the diverse needs of a congregation. Rate your church in each strategy as "excellent," "good," "fair," or "poor." Then, list several ways to strengthen, build, or launch that aspect of your ministry.
FriendshipThis type of care helps build long-term relationships and encourages ...
ARTICLE Nurturing Generosity How successful is your leadership team at equipping open-handed giving? Fred Smith
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Giving to the Master out of love and gratitude is a great and proper calling. How is your church teaching important principles on giving? Answer each question "We do this well," "We do this adequately," "We do this poorly," or "We do not do this."
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1. Explain how a Christian can give out of a sense of obedience and gratitude at the same time.
2. How is generosity first and foremost a spiritual ...
ARTICLE Growing as a Teacher Experience doesn’t sharpen teaching abilities; evaluation does. Howard Hendricks
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Most people think that the longer a person teaches, the better he or she gets. Nonsense! Only evaluated experience sharpens skills. Just as ripping through wood dulls the teeth of a carpenter's saw, so experience wears away my edge. Without evaluation, poor methods become ingrained habits, and it's easy to conclude something works when it doesn't. Rate each way of seeking feedback described below ...
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