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What is
a Healthy Church?
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A
healthy church does church God’s way and follows his principles
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Principles for
our leaders
This may sound like
saying the same thing four times, but there are differences.
Modeling is passive, we live our lives and someone may or may not be
watching. Mentoring we know that someone is watching and is
trying to imitate the way we live our life.
Teaching is more
active. We sit down with a person and instruct them how to do
something. Finally, coaching is reactive. We watch the
other person do something and then instruct them on what they do
right and wrong.
Principles for our
ministries
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Our ministries must
create an environment for change
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Minds are changed
through study – 2 Timothy 3:16-17
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Hearts are changed
through experiences – 1 John 4:19
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Lifestyles are
changed through encouragement & accountability – Hebrews 3:12-13,
10:24-25
In ministry, we
design a lot of programs that we think are going to help someone.
Either it will help bring people to the church, or it will help
someone with an addiction, or it will create more fellowship among
believers. The truth is, we say, "hey that sounds like it
might work" and then we do it.
We need to be
intentional in creating an environment for change. Instead of
creating an outreach that might bring people into the church, we
need to decide how are we going to spread the word about this, what
is going to occur at this event that would spark a person's interest
in coming to our church, how are we going to follow up with the
people that come.
When we implement a
new ministry - prison ministry, Sunday school class, Bible study,
etc. we need to ask ourselves "how will this create an environment
for change?" If we aren't interested in changing people, then
there is no spiritual reason for even meeting.
Adapted from the
Missionary Church’s Healthy Church Initiative
www.mcusa.org
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