Why More Programs May Be Making Your Church Less Healthy - Week 9
Week 9 of the Small Church Guys series: Healthy Things Grow—A Biblical and Global Approach to Natural Church Development Churches often respond to problems by adding something. Attendance is down. Add an outreach event. Volunteers are tired. Launch a recruitment campaign. Families are struggling. Start a marriage ministry. Young people are disconnected. Create a youth program. Discipleship feels shallow. Add another class. Community engagement is weak. Schedule another service project. Sometimes a new ministry is exactly the right response. But sometimes the church does not need more. Sometimes it needs less. More programs can create the appearance of health while quietly weakening the congregation underneath. A church can become busier and less fruitful. More active and less focused. More organized and less sustainable. More impressive and less alive. Natural Church Development repeatedly distinguishes real health from superficial activity. Its training emp...