The Six Growth Forces: Learning How Living Things Develop - Week 8
Week 8 of the Small Church Guys series: Healthy Things Grow—A Biblical and Global Approach to Natural Church Development A church is not a machine. That may sound obvious, but much of modern ministry can unintentionally treat the church as though it were one. Machines are built. Machines are assembled. Machines are controlled. If a machine stops producing the desired result, we replace a part, adjust a setting, add power, or redesign the system. Living things are different. Living things grow. They develop. They reproduce. They adapt. They depend upon relationships with other living things. They use available resources. They experience seasons. They produce fruit. And perhaps most importantly, life cannot simply be manufactured from the outside . This distinction sits near the heart of Natural Church Development. During the first seven weeks of this series, we have repeatedly returned to one central conviction: Healthy things grow. We have explored the eight...