Rev. Jack Stephenson will be serving as our coach and consultant on our journey to becoming a Healthier, Growing Church, Fulfilling our Purpose and Realizing our Full Potential.

We have discovered through Natural Church Development research conducted in, 1000 different churches on five continents, 32 countries, 18 languages4.2 million pieces of data, large and small growing and declining well known churches and totally unknown churches, churches from areas currently experiencing great spiritual revivals, as well as regions which appear to be more spiritually developing:

The result:  These eight quality characteristics are used by God to build his church!

•     Empowering Leadership
•     Gift-based Ministry
•     Passionate Spirituality
•     Effective Structures
•     Inspiring Worship Services
•     Holistic Small Groups
•     Need-oriented Evangelism
•     Loving Relationships

Christian Life Church has conducted a survey of a cross section of our membership and have discovered out of these eight quality characteristics that we have a minimum factor (where we scored the lowest) and while we can improve in all eight of these areas, it is suggested that we begin by developing a church health team to work on our minimum factor.

Rev. Jack Stephenson has now worked with thousands of church and we are blessed to have him in Nassau for this special day.

Under the theme “Releasing Our Church’s Potential Through the Eight Quality Characteristics of a Healthy Church,” Christian Life Church’s upcoming MAT, Ministry Advance Training with Dr. Jay Simms, will take place on Saturday, November 13, 2010, from 9 a.m. - 12:30 and is important for all those involved in any area on ministry at Christian Life Church to attend.  It will be an orientation of the eight characteristics were we will be showing the results from our resent survey that reveled where we are in these characteristics.  Make sure to come out and learn what these results mean and where we will go from here.

 

The Eight Characteristics were the result of a compiled database from a study of at least 1000 different churches on all five continents made by the Institute for Natural Church Development.  The project included large and small churches, growing and declining ones, well known churches as well as totally unknown ones, and produced principles universally used by God to build His Church that include Empowering Leadership, Gift-oriented Ministry, Passionate Spirituality, Functional Structures, Inspiring Worship Service, Holistic Small Groups, Need-Oriented Evangelism, and Loving Relationships.

Get ready for one of our biggest Children's Ministry events of the year coming Sunday, October 31st!  Children, 11 and under, in our church and community, can join us from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. for a night full of games, contests, candy, and prizes instead of trick ’r treating. Come out to be part of the harvest of kids experiencing the light of Christ instead of the darkness that the World wants to offer them on this night of the year.  Click Here for more information on participating, contests, or our Harvest Café.