{"id":2996,"date":"2024-01-30T11:22:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T09:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2024-01-30T11:22:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T09:22:46","slug":"a-healthy-church-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/?p=2996","title":{"rendered":"A Healthy Church Checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are 50 points in this list, and each one is worth 2 points. How healthy is your church? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Membership<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Allowing as members only those who have been born again<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Testimonies of conversion required for membership<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Humility as a mark of the members<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Holiness as a mark of the members<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Wide-spread Bible reading and memorizing<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Members are consistent in their church attendance<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Church discipline practiced when necessary<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Building and maintaining a meeting place<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Leadership<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \n
    1. Only men in leadership<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Multiple men in leadership<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Godliness and Biblical wisdom as the chief requirements for leadership<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Men being trained for leadership<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Leaders enjoy reading<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    6. Leaders\u2019 families love the Lord<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Family<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        \n
      1. Encouraging men to lead their homes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Encouraging women to be homemakers<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. Training children to be Christians<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      4. Consistent family worship among members<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        Outreach<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

          \n
        1. Talking about evangelism, missions, and conversions especially from the pastor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        2. Actively trying to evangelize in the community<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        3. Supporting missionaries from other churches<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        4. Sending missionaries from their membership<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        5. Energy and creativity to start ministries in the church\u2019s unique time and place<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        6. Strengthening other churches or pastors<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

          Teaching<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

            \n
          1. Verse by verse teaching<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          2. Preaching the person and work of Christ<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          3. Adherence to the Five Solas<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          4. Adherence to the doctrines of grace<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          5. Speaking the truth boldly on controversial matters<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          6. Pleading with sinners in pulpit, Bible studies, and children\u2019s classes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          7. Rejecting false doctrines unambiguously<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          8. A written doctrinal statement<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          9. Looking for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

            Public meetings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

              \n
            1. Music driven by the fear of God and chosen by mature judgment<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            2. Mature and prolonged prayers in public services<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            3. Clothing that does not distract from thoughts of God<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            4. Baptizing believers only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            5. The Lord\u2019s Table consistently administered<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            6. Warm toward visitors, other members, and Christians<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            7. Rejecting entertainment in worship<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

              Finances<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                \n
              1. Regular offerings<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              2. Giving something to the pastor<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              3. Full support of the pastor<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              4. Standing without outside support<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              5. Generous toward the poor and the lost<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

                Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  \n
                1. Consistent church wide prayer meetings<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                2. Majority of members attend prayer meetings<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                3. Significant time spent praying for spiritual requests<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                4. Praying for missionaries consistently<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                5. Commonly seeing answers to prayer<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

                  ____ Total Score (2 points per mark)          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                  There are 50 points in this list, and each one is worth 2 points. How healthy is your church? Membership Leadership Family Outreach Teaching Public meetings Finances Prayer ____ Total Score (2 points per mark)          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[522,356],"class_list":["post-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pastoral","tag-healthy-church","tag-lists"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3QrZa-Mk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2999,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions\/2999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sonofcarey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}