Take Your Church's Pulse presents ten vital signs of a healthy church--five key commitments and five key functions. It then introduces you to a church-health diagnostic tool you can apply to your setting. Thousands of pastors and leaders around the world have found this paradigm helpful in organizing the ministry and mission of the local church. This book and the free diagnostic tool it presents are most useful if accompanied by a healthy process of conversations. With such a process, led by the Spirit, this book can help you discern a preferred future for your community of faith. Koster and Wagenveld write: "A healthy community of faith is rooted first of all in the character and nature of God. It understands its mission and purpose in the world and organizes its life and work to be faithful and effective in its context. None of these vital signs stands alone. It is a combination of factors that together make up a faithful and fruitful organism, the living Church of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no magic in the number ten, but for the teaching purposes it has worked quite well in different cultural contexts in providing ideas and a language for discussing important issues in congregational life and mission." The intended audience for this book is any pastor, leader, or church member who is interest in having healthy conversations with others to strengthen the local church.

Take Your Church's Pulse

Religion & Spirituality

Wagenveld, John

Koster, Timothy

Christian Books & Bibles

Multiplication Network Ministries

Planting Healthy Churches is the centerpiece of an international course. It is provided by Multiplication Network Ministries (MNM) as a free downloadable resource for Bible colleges and seminaries. The authors, from different denominations, write with church planting experience in different countries and with a background in training and teaching thousands of students and church planters. MNM is also providing PowerPoints to accompany the book and a whole suite of practical training manuals for those desiring to move from the academic to the practical. A foundational premise of this work is that the world needs more churches and stronger churches that bear witness to the coming Kingdom of God. Planting churches is not only a biblical task, but also a very strategic one as the Church participates with the Holy Spirit in God’s work of renewing all things in Jesus Christ for the Glory of God. God’s end vision is nothing less than a new heaven and a new earth (Isaiah 65; Rev. 21). Through church planting, the new communities of faith become an instrument, sign, and foretaste of the Kingdom of God as a demonstration plot of faith, hope, and love of Christ’s sovereign and redemptive reign over all creation. Its mission is to faithfully participate with God as ambassadors of the Kingdom to promote the kind of transformation that only He can bring and the world so desperately needs.

Planting Healthy Churches

Sánchez, Daniel

Teja, Gary

Van Engen, Charles

Benkert, Todd

Waltrip, Blayne

Rooy, Sidney

Koster, Tim

Este libro presenta diez signos vitales de una iglesia saludable - cinco elementos y cinco funciones. También presenta una herramienta que diagnóstico el estado de salud de su iglesia. El libro y la herramienta de diagnóstico gratuita son útiles si están acompañadas de un proceso saludable de conversación en su iglesia. Guiados por el Espíritu Santo, este libro puede ayudarle a discernir el futuro preferido para su iglesia. Miles de pastores y líderes alrededor del mundo han encontrado útil este paradigma de organizar el ministerio y la misión de la iglesia local.

Tómele el Pulso a Su Iglesia (Spanish Edition)

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