A healthy church is a balanced church.
For a church to be healthy it needs more than doctrinal purity. It needs a balance of evangelism, worship, discipleship, fellowship and ministry.
Is your church a healthy balanced church?
If your church is focused mainly on teaching you are probably unbalanced. No matter how good your teaching ministry is you will end up with empty pews because there will be no reproduction without evangelism.
If your church is focused on evangelism alone you will have a revolving door to your church that will be next to impossible to close.
If your church is focused on ministry alone you will have people serving and meeting the needs of one another and the community and be in danger of having a social gospel that wins no one, and disciples no one.
If your church is focused on worship alone you will have a church that feels good but has little foundation.
If your church is focused on fellowship alone you will have a church that has cliques and more cliques, which will in turn become exclusive instead of inclusive.
To be a healthy balanced church follow the example of the Jerusalem church in Acts 2:41-47, purposefully.
David
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I totally agree but sometimes with only 12 people it is hard to modify techniques to be able to work well. Really there is about 6 people that can get out and work. Evangelism and outreach is the hardest. I have found that a situation where the people come to us like a table with Bibles and tracts at a mall or street fair works the best.
Sarted a blog. Thought I would give it a try. www.brotherwesdenney.blogspot.com
Hope it is ok to put this in here I didn't know where else to stick it.
Bro. Wes,
The table with Bibles and tracts in a mall sounds like a pretty good outreach to me, especially if the people manning the table know how to present the gospel when asked.
John
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