growing a healthy church
A guide designed
for pastoral leadership, to groom believers, to build a healthy church
A practical step by step guide and workbook designed to groom believers into spiritual maturity and build a healthy deeply-rooted church regardless of the numerical strength.
About the Book
Tackling the widespread issue of spiritual immaturity among church believers.
Transforming Church Health from Jungle to Garden
This book addresses the prevalent challenge of spiritual immaturity among believers in the church, the implications within and outside the church and then provides the solution in a succinct and graphical way for easy understanding.
It focuses on the issue of church health using the Jungle and the Garden as illustration, comprehensively presents how to create a transition from the jungle church to a garden church and the role of the Gardener in the transformation process. The Gardener being the pastoral leadership and his workers. Each chapter has a set of quiz and personal review questions to help internalize and apply the lessons.
Table of Contents
- Section 1 - Rethinking the Church Today
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- 01 - The Church: Understanding what it is! The Healthy Church
- 02 - The Healthy Church
- Section 2 - The Church Health Perspectives
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- 03 - The Concept of the Garden Church and The Jungle Church
- 04 - Understanding Spirituality (Spiritual Classification of the People)
- Section 3 - Working It Out
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- 05 - From Jungle Church to Garden Church
- 06 - The Gardener - The Pastoral Leadership
- 07 - The Spiritual Family System
- 08 - Key Factors in Building a Garden Church
About the Author
Emmanuel Olanrewaju Da Silva
Lanre is an ordained minister of the gospel and currently studying for a Doctoral degree at the LIFE Theological Seminary in Lagos, Nigeria. He was a teens' leader and counsellor, youth Minister, Sunday School Superintendent, Assistant Pastor and currently a Snr. Pastor with the Foursquare Gospel Church Nigeria.
He spent about 23 years in the corporate world spanning the media, advertising, brand management, innovation and corporate communication.
Lanre reopened the work of Every Home for Christ in Nigeria in 2013 as a platform to fulfill the great commission. He was appointed National Director for Nigeria in January 2014 and became Zonal Director in 2017. He currently serves, along with his wife Ebemearehi, as the Regional Director, Africa West, supervising the work of the ministry in 25 Countries spanning West and Central Africa.
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