How to Build a Healthy Church: A Practical Guide for Deliberate LeadershipIf churches are the dwelling place of Gods Spirit, why are so many built around the strategies of man? Eager for church growth, leaders can be lured by entertaining new schemes, forgetting to keep doctrinal truth as their driving force. Churches must find a way out of the maze of programs and methods and humbly lean on the sufficiency of Gods Word. How to Build a Healthy Church, a revised and expanded edition of The Deliberate Church, challenges

takes just a few minutes each day

Digital media and technology are altering the way people act—and react—toward each other

Writings such as" The Labyrinth" were accepted more favorably perhaps because few really understood the use of an allegory in the spread of the gospel in the 18th century

not all pastors make it their aim to preach through whole books of the Bible

Smalley unpack the doctrine of humanity (anthropology) and the doctrine of Christ (Christology)

If churches are the dwelling place of God’s Spirit

many Christians have skipped church life

life-giving power—and brings great blessing to those who hear and receive it

” John Piper

“Such wisdom

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God lovingly gathers his people into a wonderful community—the church