Take Your Church's Pulse
Tim Koster · John Wagenveld
Oct 2014 · Multiplication Network Ministries
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Take Your Church's Pulse presents ten vital signs of a healthy church--five key commitments and five key functions. It then introduce you to a church-health diagnostic tool you can apply to your setting. Thousands of pastors and leaders around the world have found this paradigm helpful in organizing the ministry and mission of the local church. This book and the free diagnostic tool it presents are most useful if accompanied by a healthy process of conversations. With such a process, led by the Spirit, this book can help you discern a preferred future for your community of faith.
Koster and Wagenveld write: "A healthy community of faith is rooted first of all in the character and nature of God. It understands its mission and purpose in the world and organizes its life and work to be faithful and effective in its context. None of these vital signs stands alone. It is a combination of factors that together make up a faithful and fruitful organism, the living Church of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no magic in the number ten, but for the teaching purposes it has worked quite well in different cultural contexts in providing ideas and a language for discussing important issues in congregational life and mission."
The intended audience for this book is any pastor, leader, or church member who is interest in having healthy conversations with others to strengthen the local church.
Koster and Wagenveld write: "A healthy community of faith is rooted first of all in the character and nature of God. It understands its mission and purpose in the world and organizes its life and work to be faithful and effective in its context. None of these vital signs stands alone. It is a combination of factors that together make up a faithful and fruitful organism, the living Church of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no magic in the number ten, but for the teaching purposes it has worked quite well in different cultural contexts in providing ideas and a language for discussing important issues in congregational life and mission."
The intended audience for this book is any pastor, leader, or church member who is interest in having healthy conversations with others to strengthen the local church.
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Andy Febrico Bintoro
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October 25, 2020
this is more for pastor for planting a new church, though the existing church could learn also from here. the framework was good and could be a checklist even for existing church.
Daniel Makhonjwa
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February 4, 2019
Its very encouraging and equipping for an offensive Christian life against the enemy. Its good for every Church leader.
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Thandi Nhlapo
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April 24, 2019
interesting
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About the author
JOHN WAGENVELD is the Executive Director of the Multiplication
Network following 20 years of experience in church planting and
church planter training.
TIM KOSTER currently serves as pastor of the Emmanuel Christian
Reformed Church, (Chicago, USA) his fourth church in 25 years of
ordained ministry.
Network following 20 years of experience in church planting and
church planter training.
TIM KOSTER currently serves as pastor of the Emmanuel Christian
Reformed Church, (Chicago, USA) his fourth church in 25 years of
ordained ministry.
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