Examination of Church Health
Just as a person goes to the doctor for a physical on a regular basis, our churches need a check-up on a regular basis. Dr. Thom S. Rainer, says that typically a church does do not move from good health to dying overnight. It is usually a more subtle deterioration.
Dying Church.org has researched the current problem of the large number of sick and dying churches in America. Dying Church.org like many other organizations believe there is a major problem in this area, but in many cases is correctable.
Church Health Check-UP
You can find a number of resources on this website to aid you not only in doing a church health check-up, but also provide resources to help your church return to health.
Dr. Thom Rainer says Dying Churches go through the 5 stages listed below.
- •Healthy
- •sick
- •Very sick
- •Dying
- •Deceased
Tools for Church Health
The purpose of this website is to provide tools and resources for church leaders to evaluate their church and pinpoint areas that need focus to enable them to return to good health. DyingChurch.org’s website provides resources to help churches return to the healthy state.
Dyingchurch.org not only provides tools, resources, and information on how to evaluate the condition of your church, but also tools, resources and information on how to bring your church back to a healthy state.
Church Health Resources
Under “Resources” in the menu above are links/information on a number of good resources. A number of experts advise churches to use an outside adviser/coach to serve as their accountability partner, monitoring, encouraging and giving feedback to them throughout the process. Churches, leaders, and members are all creatures of habit and in our sinfulness and stuckness we tend to avoid the tough stuff. Having someone to support you as an adviser or Coach is an indispensable part of the hard task of revitalization.
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