Becoming a Healthy Church Workbook - Softcover

Macchia, Stephen A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801091187 ISBN 13: 9780801091186

Publisher: Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, 2005

Synopsis

Designed to help pastors, church and denominational leaders and other church members or committees, this workbook helps churches analyze and improve their effectiveness in maintaining the ten qualities of a healthy church. It provides the tools for churches to evaluate their health, not just growth, and improve each area.

About this title

Synopsis:

Stephen Macchia's popular book "Becoming a Healthy Church" illustrates the ten characteristics of church health. The author suggests that all churches engage in an assessment process each year to determine the health of the church, and he has written this guide to help them in that process.With "Becoming a Healthy Church Workbook", churches will be able to better analyze and improve their effectiveness in maintaining the ten qualities of a healthy church. It provides the necessary tools for churches to evaluate their health, not just growth, and improve each area. The workbook provides summaries of the ten characteristics and an appendix containing resource materials for the church to use as it works through the strategic planning process. Macchia offers seven steps to help the church assess its strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats, ministry options, ministry goals, and action steps. This workbook is designed to help pastors, church and denominational leaders, and other church members or committees assess the health of their church, realize its potential, and unify the church with a plan toward better health.

About the Author:

Stephen A. Macchia is founding president of Leadership Transformations, Inc., a ministry focusing on spiritual formation needs of leaders and the spiritual discernment processes of leadership teams in local church and parachurch ministry settings nationwide. He is the author of Becoming a Healthy Church, Becoming a Healthy Disciple, and Becoming a Healthy Church Workbook

About this edition

• Publisher: Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0801091187
• ISBN 13: 9780801091186
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144