What Happens in Healthy Churches
Pastor Bob Fox
Colossians 1:28-29
Two things happen in healthy Churches no matter what era or culture they are in.
- Proclamation—an ongoing, Christ-centered conversation that:
- Admonishes—We challenge each other up to faith where we are just behaving instinctively.
- Teaches—We provide each other with information and models for Spirit-filled living.
- Is wise—We speak with precise words that address root issues, in a precise tone, at precisely the right time.
- Is offered to everyone.
- Is purposeful, inspiring maturity.
- Toil—many giving it all, for Him to multiply, to gain credibility, relational equity, and opportunity to affect life change.
- We embrace a struggle, enabled by His power, for minds and hearts. It is a prayerful struggle for right words, receptive hearts, and life change.
- Our efforts focus on the objectives He is empowering us to achieve, rather than our own.