This quote interested me,
“Healthy things grow. Healthy churches grow. If a church isn’t growing, it isn’t healthy. This lack of health could be due to an overall unhealthiness caused by former or present hurts, that we as the leaders are not healthy and are holding the church back or by some other kind of past problems that exists in the church. Or the lack of health could come from a simple imbalance in the 5 purposes. “
(The five purposes referred to are Rick Warrens’s from “The Purpose Driven Church”)