If numbers aren’t the only way to tell if a church is healthy, what else is there?
Have we really become so obsessed with numbers that many pastors don’t know what a healthy church looks like, outside of crunching the numbers?
An obsession with numbers can blind us to essential truths. Not only are numbers not the only way to determine church health, in many situations they’re not even the best way.
Numbers may inform us, but they don’t define us.
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When you have an open market, not
just in finance, but in religion, the size of the crowd brings an air of credibility.
We debate what Jesus would say or do if he was walking the earth today. But no honest reader of the Bible can doubt he would be with people.
Celebrity is dangerous. But it’s also very appealing. This is the toxic combination that Katelyn Beaty addresses so well.
