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HEALTHY CHURCH: Healthy Churches Multiply
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Several books have been written on the “shifts” that need to occur in the Western church — the need to focus more on disciples, not decisions; sending capacity, not seating capacity; releasing, not keeping; and deploying, not accumulating. There must be a commitment to discipling every new believer from spiritual infancy to spiritual maturity. This develops healthy adults who are able to leave “home” and start their own family. It requires being intentional and deliberate in ...
HEALTHY CHURCH: 5+1 Discipleship Spaces
Disciples are followers and imitators of the one they are following. A disciple of Jesus Christ is someone who is being with Jesus (relational), becoming like Jesus (transformational) and doing what Jesus did and is doing (commissional). The church is to be a gathering of disciples who are “the people of God, saved by the power of God, filled with the presence of God, for the purpose of...