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:
  1. The church forgets who we are and what we are for.
  2. The majority of believers are no longer thrilled and take for granted what God is doing in their lives
  3. They swallow the lie of material comfort not radical discipleship
  4. When pew fillers out number gospel hearted core
  5. Large percentage passive receivers of ministry not self feeders from the word of God
  6. When there is no life application from the Bible
  7. The church fears and won't ask radical questions
  8. Confusion of Christian activity with discipleship
  9. Not engaging all in using their spiritual gifts to serve
  10. Running in maintenance mode not mission.

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