Category: Church Health
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Hospitality: How well does your church do it?
Hospitality should be a hallmark of every local church. This means welcoming new people and helping them to form ongoing relationships. Hospitality is key to church health and growth. This was confirmed by the Church of England Research ‘From Anecdote to Evidence’, which is discussed here. It found that “growth in numbers was more likely if a…
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Book Review: Small Church Essentials
California-based pastor, author and blogger Karl Vaters has a passion for small churches – not because he thinks that small is better, but because regardless of size he wants churches to be great. Often the literature about church health focuses solely on growth and is written by people from large churches. One of Vaters’ goals…
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Growing people vital to church health
“Churches that were actively nurturing disciples were more likely to be growing” according to The Church of England’s research, ‘From Anecdote to Evidence’, which is discussed here. This finding highlights the reality that focusing on the nurture of people helps to grow the church in many ways. But what are disciples and what does it…
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Leading small churches (without settling for less)
By The Rev’d Mark Vincent, Parish of East Brisbane. Most churches throughout history have been small. Really small. But that never stopped them from being effective. Whether healthy or sick, successful or failing, effective or anaemic, most churches have been, are, and will be small congregations. Too many priests, pastors, ministers and churches labour under…