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The Twelve Laws of Building a Healthy Growing Ministry

The Twelve Laws of Building a Healthy Growing Ministry. The Law of Love. The Law of Love. Growing churches are characterized by warm, caring, initiatory relationships that grow out of a culture committed to hospitality, laughter and celebration of who God is and what He is doing among them.

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The Twelve Laws of Building a Healthy Growing Ministry

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  1. The Twelve Laws ofBuilding a Healthy Growing Ministry The Law of Love

  2. The Law of Love • Growing churches are characterized by warm, caring, initiatory relationships that grow out of a culture committed to hospitality, laughter and celebration of who God is and what He is doing among them. • Text – Romans 12:9-13

  3. I. Objective of this Session

  4. I. Objective of this Session • To help us as pastors understand the importance of measuring and promoting the qualitative factors in the life of the church over and above any quantitative factors. We need to understand that it is not only theologically correct to make our goal to become more loving but also pragmatically more effective when seeking to grow a church with high impact, to measure the qualities of love in the environment of the church rather than simply numerical goals.

  5. II. Major Teaching Points

  6. II. Major Teaching Points • a. An exposition of Romans 12:9-13 in which authenticity and purity are the foundation for genuine love.

  7. II. Major Teaching Points • b. One of the most powerful and attractive means of reaching unbelievers and building up the body of Christ is for authentic, warm loving relationships to be a spontaneous and ever-growing part of the culture of the healthy church.

  8. II. Major Teaching Points • Romans 12 • verse 1-2 : A holy offering • verse 3-5 : An interdependent body • verse 6-8 : Supernatural abilities and gifts to fulfill God’s purposes • verse 9-13 : All happening in an environment of love

  9. 9Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 10Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. 11Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. 12Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. 13Share with God’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality. Romans 12:9-13 (NIV)

  10. III. Research

  11. III. Research • It can be demonstrated there is a significant connection between “laughter in the church” and that a church’s qualitative and numerical growth. It is interesting that such a significant factor which, according to the data, definitely has the status of a church growth principle receives almost no mention in church growth literature. (NCD, 36).

  12. IV. Practical Implementation

  13. IV. Practical Implementation • a. This demands modeling by the senior pastor and key leaders in the church that they do not take themselves too seriously but take God very seriously. • b. A sense of humor is a part of the formal and informal life of the church.

  14. IV. Practical Implementation • c. The hospitality and specific mechanisms for building a culture of warmth and caring is absolutely vital in the life of the church. Ways to do this include: • 1. Have a good system of ushers and greeters in your church. Enlist ushers who love people.

  15. IV. Practical Implementation • c. The hospitality and specific mechanisms for building a culture of warmth and caring is absolutely vital in the life of the church. Ways to do this include: • 2. Train people to look for the needs, pull seeds, find out who might need to be loved.

  16. IV. Practical Implementation • c. The hospitality and specific mechanisms for building a culture of warmth and caring is absolutely vital in the life of the church. Ways to do this include: • 3. Be a friendly, warm, loving pastor. • 4. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love, giving preference to one another.

  17. IV. Practical Implementation • d. Although we as humans tend to fall in love with size as a matter of success, research indicates that churches over 1,000 are usually weakest in the area of loving relationships. Thus the crucial need is for: • 1. A vital small-group ministry • 2. An intentional focus in the worship services on the importance of the individual

  18. IV. Practical Implementation • d. Although we as humans tend to fall in love with size as a matter of success, research indicates that churches over 1,000 are usually weakest in the area of loving relationships. Thus the crucial need is for: • 3. The modeling of genuine concern and love for the community

  19. V. Key Questions

  20. V. Key Questions • 1. What one thing can you do to become more loving, which will increase the atmosphere of love in your church?

  21. VI. Helpful Resources/Tools

  22. VI. Helpful Resources/Tools • Natural Church Development, pages 36-37 • Love One Another, audio series from Walk Thru the Bible

  23. VII. Questions and Answers

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