Natural Church Development: A Guide to Eight Essential Qualities of Healthy Churches
Description
Critics of the church growth movement have often emphasized the need for quality congregations. We should not focus on numerical growth, but rather, we should concentrate on qualitative growth.Christian Schwarz has done extensive research world-wide and found that healthy, growing churches seem to share eight quality characteristics. These characteristics are:Empowering leadership Gift-oriented ministry Passionate spirituality Functional structures Inspiring worship service Holistic small groups Need-oriented evangelism Loving relationshipsSchwarz uses the illustration of a barrel with eigh...
ISBN(s)
1889638005, 9781889638003
