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Your Church can grow

Discover ways to cultivate a vibrant church community by focusing on spirituality, open-hearted hospitality, and strategic planning. Learn how to remove growth barriers and engage in mission-driven activities to attract new members and strengthen existing bonds. Explore resources and consultations to support your church's development.

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Your Church can grow

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  1. Your Church can grow Growing in Numbers

  2. 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favour of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. Acts 2:42-47

  3. Your Church can grow Growing in Numbers

  4. Your Church can grow Growing in Numbers

  5. Technical Organic

  6. Healthy Churches tend to grow [Jesus] said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come. Mark 4:26-29

  7. Growing Healthy Churches

  8. Healthy Churches tend to grow

  9. “If all living things have an inbuilt tendency towards growth, what hinders your church from growing?”

  10. Spirituality

  11. Open hearted hospitality

  12. “Unless there is something about church, or Christians, or Christian faith, that intrigues, provokes or entices, then all the evangelism in the world will fall on deaf ears. If churches cannot convey a sense of reality then all our ‘truth’ will count for nothing.” Graham Tomlin, The Provocative church.

  13. Summary • Maintain vibrant spirituality • Practice open hearted hospitality • Get connected • Put faith into action • Prioritise evangelism • Plan on the basis that faith is a journey • Develop a strategy • 1.a to 7.a - pray

  14. Your Church can grow Growing in Numbers

  15. Growing in Numbers • Resources • Your Regional Minister • Help you conduct a Healthy Church Review • Help you identify and remove barriers to growth • Help you think through a mission strategy • Conduct a mission consultancy • Signpost you to other churches that might be able to help. • https://www.exponential.org/resource-ebooks/the-five-habits/

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