1A. healthy local church has a spiritually healthy Pastor—integrity,
capacity and comp-etence
2.A healthy local church comp-rised of truly saved and trans-formed
people, 85%
3.A healthy local church has a very loving atmosphere—free from
grumblings, gimmicks, gluttons and girls of easy virtues
4..A healthy local church
comp-rised of sheep’s who are growing to true disciples of The Lord
5.A healthy
local church is peo-pled by disciples that evangelize and win others for The
Lord on regular basis
6.A healthy local church is gen-uine, growing, groaning,
going, glowing, giving and glittering for God
7.A healthy local church gives
preeminent position to the person and leadings of the Holy Spirit of God
8.A
healthy local church is a house of Prayer, intercession and seeking God
intimately
9.A healthy local church has asso-ciates, deacons that are spiritual
pillars of support to the Pastorate
10.A healthy local church is miss-ion minded
and supports local and foreign mission regularly, even send people on missions
and raise missionaries.
11.A healthy local church has small groups that meets
regularly and multiplies in the community.
12.A healthy local church fights sins,
evils and ungodliness in private and open lives of her members
13.A healthy local
church has a powerful pulpit that touches hearts not that tickles the ear only
14.A healthy local church allows the gifts and ministry of members to thrive and
permits gift useage.
15.A healthy local church has much more men than women in
attendance—men that raise godly homes and are good fathers
16.A healthy local
church has healthy families, marriages and homes in larger majority
17.A healthy
local church has a vibrant adolescent, youth and children church
18.A healthy
local church practi-ces spiritual warfare and defeats host of darkness in her
locality
19.A healthy local church has good image in her locality and goodwill of
the people in her community through good works and community commitment
20.A
healthy local church spend her money wisely for Kingdom purpose, benefitting
Gods king-dom than private empires.
21.A healthy local church gives birth to
daughter churches and allows them to fulfil their potent-ials without subjugating
them.
22.A healthy local church gives high regard to the Undiluted Word of God and
obeys totally, com-pletely, promptly, continuously and consistently in her
daily lives
23. A healthy local church has proper and scriptural administra-tion of
gifts, machinery and me-thods in place.
24.A healthy local church belie-ves and
work for unity of the body of Christ and network with other churches
Every
local church must imbibe and show forth these traits in her everyday life to be
measured as a biblically healthy local church. In short, she must be a TRUE
PALM TREE. A healthy local church has all the distinguishing features of a
blossoming Palm Tree. (Psalm 92:12-14)
Ministry and faithful-ness
PART–1 BIGGER
OR SMALL-ER MINISTRY? Most ministers these days want a “bigger” church, or a
“bigger” ministry. It is the same mentality that says that “bigger is better”.
A bigger bank balance, a bigger house, and a bigger car ….. in today’s church
culture, a bigger church or ministry implies greater favour from God and greater
success. Unfortunately, this is the prevalent way of thinking among people
these days. On the other hand, we must understand that not everybody is called
to pastor a big church; For example if God sends you to minister in an area
with very few people you would never have a church as large as a big-city
megachurch. God measures su-ccess not by numbers but by Faithfulness to His
Call upon your life. If you are faithful you will have success that is
numerically proportionate to where God has called you to serve and what he has
called you to do.
By Dr. Francis Akin-John
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