Jason McKinney blessed me a few months ago. He told me that he had heard that one church we trained together was still sending out witnessing teams each week. Jason was involved in training most of the 1,000 or more people in the Cincinnati Area who have been trained in what we call Gospel Conversations. The Three Circles evangelism presentation is a significant chunk of that training.
The longer version of the Gospel Conversations training is No Place Left, quoting from the Apostle Paul in Romans who said he wanted to visit Rome now that there was no place left that he hadn’t evangelized. Yet, Paul also realized that healthy evangelizing resulted in healthy disciples that formed healthy churches.
Is your church healthy? What does a healthy church look like or should look like?
No Place Left trainers identified ten qualities of a church using the church at Corinth in the Bible as an example. Maybe your church has more going on than Corinth did!
What markers do you use to determine your church’s health? No Place Left uses 10 markers that are not budgets, bodies, and buildings:
1. Repent & Believe – professions of faith in Jesus
2. Baptisms – first sign of obedience
3. Pray – constant and consistent
4. Go Make Disciples – maturing, but also going
5. Love – exhibited by care
6. Worship – genuine adoration
7. Lord’s Supper – ‘til He comes
8. Give – a culture of generosity
9. Leaders – developing and empowering
10. Gather – finding ways to meet
Now -- Celebrate what you’re doing right. And please address right away any or all of these markers of a healthy church that need to receive more attention! After all, we honor God when we have healthy churches.
--Mark Snowden serves as director for the Cincinnati Area Baptist Association
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