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Local Church Administration
How healthy is your local church?
The Church of "Perfidy"
What
Type of Foundation Does Your Church Have? The foundation of your church
will set up the attitude and theme of your church. Thus we need to ask,
is our church lined up properly to its foundation? Do you realize that
if it is not, your church building will fall off of it? Your church
building, if not properly erected on good foundation “footers,” will
fail and perhaps collapse upon the congregation, literally. In
constituting a building whether it be a church, an office, or a home–it
is absolutely essential that...
A Primer on How to Lead and Manage
the Church
Biblical Principles Of God’s Call to Manage His Flock! The goal of this
Primer is to lay forth to you suggestions from God’s Word and from my
own experience on how to effectively run a church. A general overview
will be given, followed by a step-by-step plan on how to effectively
organize for His glory. Although church growth is the goal, this Primer
is not based on traditional church growth jargon, even though some of
the principles are applied. After years of...
Is Your Church Healthy?
What
would your church look like if you took away the preacher, the music and
worship, the buildings, and Sunday School? What would you have left? The
answer of what is left is what impacts and what resounds in your church,
and is where your church’s health lies. Because doing church is not
about the preacher, the observances, or the classes. It is about how
we...
Questions to Determine Your
Church's Health
Here
is a tool to help you assess your church's health. For each question,
have your congregation and leaders be open and honest and be in prayer.
Church Diseases
A Healthy church needs to develop an immune system to resist disease,
else the church will get sick and perhaps even die.
How to Find Out if Your Church is
Visitor Friendly
Seeking out information from the visitors will be one of your best
resources. They will see beyond what we see because we become compliant
and get so used to the way things are that we do not see the problems
and issues that a fresh perspective will see.
What is the
expiration date on your church?
Wouldn’t it be interesting if
the expiration date for a church were stamped on it as clearly as it is
on a package of meat at the grocery? The expiration date tells you how
fresh the package you hold in your hand really is. If you’re like us,
Gloria and I always dig in the back of the case for products with an
expiration date as far in the future as possible. Unfortunately for
churches, that’s not always possible. As a preacher or church leader, you
don’t get to choose the freshest church. You’re already in a church and
it may be closer to its expiration date than you think.
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