In Preaching Articles: "Healthy Church" showing 1-15 of 525

Is Your Church Stuck Or Just Small?

By Sermoncentral on Jan 23, 2019

If your church is healthy, quit stressing about getting bigger. God may not be calling you to bigness.

Scripture: Acts 1:1-15

Tags: Growth, Church Growth, Healthy Church, effective, Small Church  (view more)  (view less)

10 Things Healthy Churches Do Well

By Joe Mckeever on Mar 22, 2018

Whether we are a critic or a lover of the church — or for some of us, both — it's important to remain balanced.

Scripture: Acts 6:1-7

Tags: Church Growth, Healthy Church, Pastors, CHURCH LIFE, Church General, Accept  (view more)  (view less)

Ministering To Millennials By Leveraging The Relational Power Of Healthy Churches

By Sermoncentral on Oct 28, 2016

We need to lean away from the church-as-business model and into the church-as-relational-community model. Love God and love others.

Tags: Personal Testimony, Healthy Relationship, Intergenerational, millennials

Sorry, Pastors – The Growth Of The Church Is Not Up To Us

By Karl Vaters on Nov 11, 2017

"Preaching the Word, training disciples and ministering to the community may or may not increase the number of people who sit in front of me from Sunday to Sunday. But it will produce a healthy church."

Tags: Church Growth, Surrender, Healthy Church, God's Church, God in control, pastoral leadership, call to discipleship, church leadership  (view more)  (view less)

8 Ways To Make Church Change Run Smoother

By Charles Stone on May 5, 2017

In your church you’re probably trying to bring change in some way or are contemplating it.

Tags: Change, Healthy Relationship, Church and change, Transitions

3 Keys To Making Change Stick In Your Church

By Charles Stone on Aug 31, 2016

Change is inevitable. And unless a church creates healthy change in itself, it will soon become obsolete.

Tags: leadership, Change, church conflict, Leadership Listening

Doing Ministry Without Losing Your Soul Part 2

By Lance Witt on Oct 16, 2017

"In ministry, there are certain tensions that we must live with. Sometimes they seem contradictory, but they are tensions that are actually healthy for us."

Scripture: Philippians 3:7-8, Psalm 27:4, 2 Corinthians 3:18

Tags: leadership, Balance, pastoral leadership, Pastoral Ministry, church ministry, Healthy Ministry, Tensions in Ministry  (view more)  (view less)

Top 7 Ways To Close The Back Door Of Your Church

By Rob Overton on Mar 19, 2020

"It is incredibly easy for a growing church to appear healthy while leaving bruised and battered people in its wake."

Tags: Preaching, Attendance, Retention

11 Types Of Healthy Churches That Often Stay Small

By Sermoncentral on Jun 6, 2019

Many types of churches fulfill the Great Commission without seeing their own numerical growth.

Scripture: 2 Samuel 22:1-31

Tags: Preaching

How Do You Lead Without Being Toxic?

By Rev Mac Mccarthy on Aug 20, 2016

When leadership does not transition to development in a timely way, it becomes toxic.

Tags: leadership, Healthy Church, Leadership General, church leadership, e  (view more)  (view less)

Check The Mirror, Pastor – After Five Years, Your Church Looks Like You

By Sermoncentral on Sep 2, 2016

Show me a spiritually healthy church and I’ll show you a spiritually healthy pastor. Show me a spiritually unhealthy church and I’ll show you a spiritually unhealthy pastor.

Scripture: Hebrews 13:7

Tags: Humility, pastor, spiritual leadership, Pastoral Character

The 4 Most Overlooked Realities Of A Healthy Church Turnaround

By Sermoncentral on Nov 19, 2016

Many pastors say “I want this church to turn around”, when what we really mean is “I want this church to get bigger.” Those are two different goals.

Tags: Church, Church Health, Church and change, A changed heart

7 Things That Get Harder As Your Church Grows

By Carey Nieuwhof on Jul 17, 2017

Ever think that growth will solve all your problems?

Tags: leadership, Church Growth, Healthy Church, pastoral leadership, church ministry, church problems, church priorities, Effective Leadership, Focus on Numbers, Elias livingstone  (view more)  (view less)

10 Suggestions For The Shepherd Of A Stagnant Flock

By Joe Mckeever on Feb 2, 2018

Non-growing churches are not healthy, at least in some significant ways. Joe McKeever gives his input to help revive a church that seems to have "plateaued."

Tags: Church, Growth, leadership, pastor, Church Growth, Apathy, Fail, Leadership General  (view more)  (view less)

4 Easy Steps To Healthy Delegation

By Ron Edmondson on Oct 20, 2017

How do we let go of responsibility when we are wired so heavily towards not doing so? How do we delegate when the church holds us responsible for getting things done? How do we let go when doing so makes us sometimes feel so out of control?

Tags: Pride, letting go, multiply, pastoral leadership, church leadership, delegating, Effective Leadership, Healthy Ministry  (view more)  (view less)