Product Description

This practical guide helps churches identify their strengths and weaknesses and discover what action to take in order to develop the health of their church. The focus is on the quality of the church's life rather than just the numbers attending. There are no quick fixes, no '60-minutes to the perfect church' type of solutions. The material and process outlined here is the fruit of 10 years of research and reflection on how the church can best express its faith and life in today's setting. The material is fully road-tested and has been used in local churches across the UK and beyond.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #75376 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Review
'For many churches, identifying how we are church and how we could be church better is likely to prove the most costly, yet the most fruitful, and creative outcome of engagement with the whole healthy church process.' Robert Warren

Customer Reviews

Helping Your Church to Grow
Healthy Churches are Growing Churches. That is the premise of Robert Warren's Healthy Churches' Handbook. Using a similar approach to Christian Schwarz's Natural Church Development (NCD), Warren suggests that healthy churches will be strong in seven values, goals and characteristics (as opposed to eight activities in NCD).

These are: energised by faith; outward-looking focus; seeks to find what God wants; faces the cost of change and growth; operates as a community; makes room for all; and does a few things and does them well.

The second part of the book contains practical material to help churches become more healthy, including a questionnaire which enables you to develop a profile of your church and to see which areas need the most work.

Robert Warren is an experienced mission-oriented priest (he was team rector of St Thomas, Crookes at the time of the Nine O'Clock Service) and much of the material was developed while he was involved with the Church of England's Springboard project.