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    Church Health: The Essential Personal and Organizational Facets
    Church Health: The Essential Personal and Organizational Facets
    Church Health: The Essential Personal and Organizational Facets
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    Church Health: The Essential Personal and Organizational Facets

    By Gary V Carter

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    Church health is tricky. Much has been written on the subject but seldom do the resources zoom out far enough to see the whole picture. In this book you can read in an evening you will see from a wide angle the things many miss. This book doesn't cover the latest cool program or methodology; it stands back and speaks to the church and the lives of the people in it. When the balance is right the church flourishes. Help find the balance and perspective you may have been looking for.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGary V Carter
    Release dateAug 24, 2017
    ISBN9781370980826
    Church Health: The Essential Personal and Organizational Facets
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    Gary V Carter

    Gary is variously known as a Ministry Imagineer / Engineer, a Life Coach, a Pastor, a Church Starting Specialist, a Church Health Consultant, a Writer and Publisher. In all those roles people often comment on his abiding passion for ministry. Those are some of his various vocational dimensions but he is also a husband to Wendy, father and grandfather. Gary’s ministry life now spans five decades. And he still stays fresh and more energized than many who are just starting!

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      Church Health - Gary V Carter

      Church Health

      The Essential Personal and Organizational Facets

      Gary V Carter

      Published by

      Kainos Enterprises

      7777 Churchville Road

      Brampton ON L6Y 0H3 Canada

      Copyright 2017 Gary V Carter

      Smashwords Edition

      Visit www.garyvcarter.com for free additional resources

      All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

      Contents

      Introduction

      All Growth Requires Change

      A Changed Church—Change People First

      The Three Facets of Personal Life

      Believe

      Belong

      Behave

      The Ten Facets of Church Life

      Foundation Facets

      Facet 1: Vision—I See

      Facet 2: Culture —I Fit

      Facet 3: FormatIon—I Walk

      MInistry Facets

      Facet 4: WorshIp —I Respond

      Facet 5: InstructIon —I Grow

      Facet 6: FellowshIp —I Connect

      Facet 7: EvangelIsm —I Care

      Administration

      Facet 8: Support —I Serve

      Facet 9: Organization —I Plan

      Facet 10: BuIldIng —I Meet

      Church Life

      The Process

      The Programs

      The Progress

      Practical Plans

      Open the Discussion

      About the Author

      Introduction

      In every area of life healthy things grow. Healthy churches grow. Therefore, as our church improves its health, it will gain the strength it needs to make a significant impact on our community.

      Many people who associate with any church don’t stand tall. They show up on Sunday for some reason some of the time when other things don’t intervene. It will always be that way. However, the larger the crowd that gathers the larger the possibility that someone will decide to stand tall, raise their hand, step up and become the one God uses! That one person setting an example may inspire someone else to join together with them and become a force multiplier. All that is true only if at the core the church is led by the people who themselves stand tall with a certainty and unity of conviction and beliefs.

      The agenda is to help every church become and remain healthy, grow and reproduce. It is inspiring to have the whole team pulling in the same direction pursuing the Lord’s vision for a church!

      A healthy church depends on the people who get it and then live it. Far too many get it only enough to learn to complain that others don’t live it rather than becoming the example for others. Inadvertently they create a progeny of complainers just like themselves.

      It is possible to build momentum in a church ministry. The experience of success on the smaller scale, moves people to take on larger challenges.

      All churches need an objective way to measure ministry health and a will to move forward together.

      All Growth Requires Change

      But all change is not conducive to growth. It is a mistake to force too much change. If people don’t want to come to church nobody’s going to make them. If they

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