Church Health ProfileChurch Health Profile

Twelve Factors that Identify a Twelve Factors that Identify a Healthy ChurchHealthy Church

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Greg PennaGreg Penna

Divine EnablementDivine Enablement

The The healthy churchhealthy church

recognizes God’s recognizes God’s

sovereign role in sovereign role in

building the kingdom building the kingdom

and joyfully seeks and and joyfully seeks and

expects expects His Holy Spirit’s

work in and through the Body of Christ.

Pastoral LeadershipPastoral Leadership

The The healthy churchhealthy church is is led by a pastor led by a pastor who demonstrates who demonstrates the calling, the calling, character, and character, and competence to competence to help this church help this church achieve its God-achieve its God-given purpose and given purpose and shared vision.shared vision.

Christ Exalting WorshipChrist Exalting Worship

The The healthy churchhealthy church magnifies Christ by magnifies Christ by providing worship experiences that providing worship experiences that engage the whole person and lead engage the whole person and lead the congregation into God’s the congregation into God’s presence.presence.

Effective EvangelismEffective Evangelism

The The healthy churchhealthy church embraces its embraces its mandate to mandate to multiply followers multiply followers of Jesus Christ and of Jesus Christ and more healthy more healthy churches.churches.

Ministries of CompassionMinistries of Compassion

The The healthy churchhealthy church actively expresses actively expresses the love of Christ through generosity the love of Christ through generosity and service to those in need.and service to those in need.

Loving CommunityLoving Community

The The healthy churchhealthy church practices genuine practices genuine care for one another while embracing care for one another while embracing new people and valuing their inclusion new people and valuing their inclusion in the fellowship.in the fellowship.

““Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God in forgiving each other, just as God in Christ has also forgiven you” (Eph. Christ has also forgiven you” (Eph. 4:32, 4:32, NASB).NASB).

Maturing FaithMaturing Faith

The The healthy churchhealthy church nurtures spiritual nurtures spiritual maturity that maturity that shapes Biblical shapes Biblical beliefs and beliefs and transforms transforms behaviors behaviors consistent with a consistent with a holy life!holy life!

Personal MinistryPersonal Ministry

The The healthy churchhealthy church expects and equips expects and equips its members to its members to discover, develop, discover, develop, and use their gifts and use their gifts for fruitful ministry.for fruitful ministry.

Leadership DevelopmentLeadership Development

The The healthy churchhealthy church identifies, trains, identifies, trains, and empowers persons called and and empowers persons called and gifted for servant leadership.gifted for servant leadership.

““The things which you have heard The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others men who will be able to teach others also” (II Timothy 2:2, NASB).also” (II Timothy 2:2, NASB).

God-honoring StewardshipGod-honoring Stewardship

The The healthy churchhealthy church teaches and teaches and practices Biblical practices Biblical stewardship and stewardship and provides provides opportunities for opportunities for generosity in time, generosity in time, talents, and talents, and treasures.treasures.

““Bring the Bring the whole tithewhole tithe into the storehouse, into the storehouse, so that there may be so that there may be food in My house, and food in My house, and test me now in this,’ test me now in this,’ says the Lord of hosts, says the Lord of hosts, ‘if I will not open for ‘if I will not open for you the windows of you the windows of heaven and pour out heaven and pour out for you a blessing until for you a blessing until it overflows” (Malachi it overflows” (Malachi 3:10,3:10, NASB). NASB).

Outreach FocusOutreach Focus

The The healthy churchhealthy church reaches into its reaches into its community and the world as community and the world as compassionate, culturally responsive, compassionate, culturally responsive, disciple-making ambassadors of disciple-making ambassadors of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ.

Vision-Directed SystemsVision-Directed Systems

The The healthy churchhealthy church has its varied has its varied ministries focused and working ministries focused and working together around the central purpose together around the central purpose of fulfilling its vision.of fulfilling its vision.