- Paperback: 168 pages
- Publisher: Church House Publishing (16 Dec 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0715142208
- ISBN-13: 978-0715142202
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.6 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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'For many churches, identifying how we are church and how we could be church better is likely to prove the most costly, yet the most fruitful, and creative outcome of engagement with the whole healthy church process.' Robert Warren
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This practical guide helps churches identify their strengths and weaknesses and discover what action to take in order to develop the health of their church. The focus is on the quality of the church's life rather than just the numbers attending. There are no quick fixes, no '60-minutes to the perfect church' type of solutions. The material and process outlined here is the fruit of 10 years of research and reflection on how the church can best express its faith and life in today's setting. The material is fully road-tested and has been used in local churches across the UK and beyond.
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Healthy Churches are Growing Churches. That is the premise of Robert Warren's Healthy Churches' Handbook. Using a similar approach to Christian Schwarz's Natural Church Development (NCD), Warren suggests that healthy churches will be strong in seven values, goals and characteristics (as opposed to eight activities in NCD).
These are: energised by faith; outward-looking focus; seeks to find what God wants; faces the cost of change and growth; operates as a community; makes room for all; and does a few things and does them well.
The second part of the book contains practical material to help churches become more healthy, including a questionnaire which enables you to develop a profile of your church and to see which areas need the most work.
Robert Warren is an experienced mission-oriented priest (he was team rector of St Thomas, Crookes at the time of the Nine O'Clock Service) and much of the material was developed while he was involved with the Church of England's Springboard project.
These are: energised by faith; outward-looking focus; seeks to find what God wants; faces the cost of change and growth; operates as a community; makes room for all; and does a few things and does them well.
The second part of the book contains practical material to help churches become more healthy, including a questionnaire which enables you to develop a profile of your church and to see which areas need the most work.
Robert Warren is an experienced mission-oriented priest (he was team rector of St Thomas, Crookes at the time of the Nine O'Clock Service) and much of the material was developed while he was involved with the Church of England's Springboard project.
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A really helpful resource. Unlike so much advice on church life, this book is the result of RESEARCH not opinion and as such it has authority! However, it tackles the issue of spiritual growth in your church from the angle of how the members should BE rather than what they should DO. This manifests itself as seven distinguishing features of a healthy (i.e. growing)church.
This is not a book for those seeking a "quick fix". It requires some careful thought. However, the examples and advice offered give an indication of how the reader might begin to grow his/her church spiritually and hence numerically. Although written from an Anglican perspective the content is relevant to any church (I have experience of a number of different church persuasions!)
This is not a book for those seeking a "quick fix". It requires some careful thought. However, the examples and advice offered give an indication of how the reader might begin to grow his/her church spiritually and hence numerically. Although written from an Anglican perspective the content is relevant to any church (I have experience of a number of different church persuasions!)
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