- The church forgets who we are and what we are for.
- The majority of believers are no longer thrilled and take for granted what God is doing in their lives
- They swallow the lie of material comfort not radical discipleship
- When pew fillers out number gospel hearted core
- Large percentage passive receivers of ministry not self feeders from the word of God
- When there is no life application from the Bible
- The church fears and won't ask radical questions
- Confusion of Christian activity with discipleship
- Not engaging all in using their spiritual gifts to serve
- Running in maintenance mode not mission.
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Diagnosing a broken church
There are lots of books out giving us various programmes to revitalise our church, there are the helpful 9marks books on the marks of a healthy church, the deliberate church and the marks of a healthy church member. But I hadn't really given much thoughts to the signs that tell us a church is broken or running out of steam, until I read Marcus Honeysetts article in Evangelicals Now. There he diagnoses 10 reasons why churches stall, they are:
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