Habits of Healthy Churches: 7 Practices to Transform Your Church Culture

Author and Leadership Guru, Patrick Lencioni notes “the single greatest advantage any company can achieve is organizational health.” Organizational health trumps everything. Having worked in and with a variety of businesses, organizations, non-profits, ministries, and churches, there is no question that this maxim is true. Organizational health trumps all else. Organizational health trumps resource, location, market share, staffing, personality, product, or services. For the Christian church, a corollary maxim would be “outside of the work of God through the Gospel, organizational health trumps everything.” The guiding principle for this book is simple: for individual congregations and ministries, outside of the work of God through the Gospel, organizational health trumps everything. Health trumps. This book is being written on what is hoped to be the tail end of a nearly two-year global pandemic that impacted and shaped the whole world for both the good and the bad. The church in the United States is in its most perilous position in its history. More churches are at risk of closing than any other time in history. Pastors and church staff are leaving their congregations and ministries at an unprecedented rate. The US church needs revitalization more than ever before. Revitalization happens when a church knows its identity and lives out the model of the early church in its context. In this book, we explore the nature of health for the church (all Christian communities, congregations, and ministries) and for individual conversations. This book is intended to be theoretical and practical. It seeks to engage in healthy orthodoxy (right belief) and orthopraxy (right practice). Habits of Healthy Churches will examine the nature of organizational health in general and from a church level. The book also examines seven of the primary habits of healthy churches, giving practical wisdom to leaders and congregations who want to be as healthy as possible. Finally, after examining the habits of healthy churches the book will explore some other important concepts concluding with a reflection on where we go from here.
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