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Introduction: Growing the Church God’s Way.
We are in a series entitled “Growing the Church God’s Way.”
The topic may seem like a no-brainer.
Is anyone so bold as to say, “Hey everyone, we’ve got a great plan for growing our church but it isn’t God’s way.
He has His ideas and they work for some but we have better ideas.
What God does is old school, He isn’t keeping up with the times.
We’ve got a new plan.”
We are in a series entitled “Growing the Church God’s Way.”
The topic may seem like a no-brainer.
Is anyone so bold as to say, “Hey everyone, we’ve got a great plan for growing our church, but it isn’t God’s way.
He has His ideas and they work for some, but we have better ideas.
What God does is old school, He isn’t keeping up with the times.
We’ve got a new plan.”
That is the height of absurdity.
We would never say that.
But is it possible we might act that way even if we don’t talk that way?
That is the height of absurdity.
So we would never say that.
That is the height of absurdity.
So we would never say that.
But is it possible we might act that way even if we don’t talk that way?
One would think that growing the church is important to God and it be easy to figure out how to do it.
That doesn’t seem to be the case.
Here’s an email I received right as I was working on this message:
One would think that growing the church is important to God and it be easy to figure out how to do it.
That doesn’t seem to be the case.
Here’s an email I received right as I was working on this message:
EMAIL: Can online church help grow your church?
I got an email as I was working on this message:
What do you think, was this a message from God?
Is THIS the way to grow a church?
There are many people with different ideas about how to grow the church.
Some say you need to be seeker-centered, others seeker-friendly, others seeker-suspicious.
EMAIL: Can online church help grow your church?
What do you think, was this a message from God?
Is THIS the way to grow a church?
There are many people with different ideas about how to grow the church.
Some say you need to be seeker-centered, others seeker-friendly, others seeker-suspicious.
Which one is right?
Which one is God’s way?
Let me suggest that God’s way is going to be the approach that works every time for everyone.
That’s a problem.
None of those who teach methods for church growth say their model works every time.
Think about that, there is no one church model that works every time.
Some say you need to broadcast your church online,
Which one is right?
Which one is God’s way?
Let me suggest that God’s way is going to be the approach that works every time for everyone.
That’s a problem.
None of those who teach methods for church growth say their model works every time.
Think about that, there is no one church model that works every time.
But none of those who teach church growth would ever suggest that their model works every time.
A different approach is to look at growing churches and see what common principles they share.
By doing that we can focus on principles rather than methods.
Christian Schwartz, the founder of Natural Church Development did just that.
He surveyed over 70,000 churches all over the world and discovered that every growing church has eight characteristics present.
The characteristics are in these eight areas of ministry.
Christian Schwartz, the founder of Natural Church Development has surveyed over 70,000 churches all over the world and discovered that every growing church has eight characteristics present.
The characteristics are in these eight areas of ministry.
Leadership
Ministry
Spirituality
Structures
Worship
Small groups
Evangelism
Relationships
The key isn’t to just have these ministry elements present in the church.
Most churches haves these areas of ministry.
What Christian discovered wasn’t just that churches had leadership, but a particular kind of leadership.
Healthy churches don’t just have worship but a certain quality of ministry.
He found a different, unique quality for each of these eight areas of ministry present in every growing church he surveyed.
The quality is an adjective.
Here is the list with the qualities identified.
These are described with a noun and an adjective.
The characteristics are the following:
The “what” for church growth:
Empowering leadership
Gift-based ministry
Passionate spirituality
Effective structures
Inspiring worship
Holistic small groups
Need-oriented evangelism
Loving relationships
A different approach is to look at growing churches and see what common principles they share.
By doing that we can focus on principles rather than methods.
Christian Schwartz, the founder of Natural Church Development did just that.
He surveyed over 70,000 churches all over the world and discovered that every growing church has eight characteristics present.
The characteristics are in these eight areas of ministry.
Christian discovered that every church that has these qualities present as a measurable strength is a healthy, growing church.
What is so cool about this is that these are all biblical principles.
Christian didn’t created this list.
They are all from the Bible.
I have been in church all my life.
I went to Bible college and seminary.
I have studies church growth, read books on church growth and tried to figure it out.
When I read Christian’s book, Natural Church Development, everything I’ve ever studied made sense.
It is a balanced biblical approach.
It’s possible that there is someone else out there teaching this, but if so, I haven’t found them.
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