Church To Wake Up: Chapter Analysis

A growing topic in healthcare today is the focus on promoting a “healing” environment. While many consider all hospitals, nursing homes and rehabilitation centers to be healing facilities they are not recognized as such by the Baptist Healing Trust of Nashville Tennessee. To be deemed a “healing hospital” a facility possesses three key components which are not only physical in nature but spiritual as well. By recognizing the relationship between the two, a facility is able to overcome many of the barriers that present challenges for other companies. By identifying the key components and broken barriers one can

In these brief three pages, there is a bold calling for spiritual authority, and ways friends of Jesus can authentically experience and acquire that authority. In the beginning, Anderson explained that spiritual authority is manifested from personal experiences and not “secondhand authorities” (pages 50-51). Next, he addressed certain characteristics that “make one fit to be a minister of the gospel” (pg. 51). Finally, he provided a glimpse on what it takes to be an Authentic Child of Light by walking well in the Light. In these three pages, I felt like Margaret Fall in which these words cut to my heart and I wept.

This book seeks to encourage the declining and stagnate churches to take the example set by other churches that have had a period of decline yet have managed to pull up their socks and regained their lost growth. Stetzer and Dodson call this book the “comeback Churches’ to give the readers

Dr. W. H. King, III and First Lady Shemika King and the entire Greater New Hope Missionary Baptist Church wish to express or warmest and sincere appreciation to each of guest, Dr. William Randall and the St, Matthew Baptist Church Family of Hitchcock, TX , Dr. Patrick Caballero of True Living Word Church Family of LaMarque and Pastor Thomas Wilson, the Meadowbrook Baptist Church Family of Houston, TX, Mayor of Dickinson Julie Master, DMA Vice President Amos C. Sowell and Deacon Donald Hill.

I just finished reading “Autopsy Of A Deceased Church” by Thom Rainer again. Why again? Because I can’t take watching churches die anymore, and all of us need to see, and understand the signs of dying churches. You may think your church is exempt, but that is not reality. No church is exempt, that’s why you have to buy and read this books. The stakes are way to high for you to sit back and hope that others will be the primary care givers in your church. If that is your mentality, you may be only a few years away from an autopsy of your deceased church.

Starting a church and building a church was a lot harder than I expected. Many of our projects and efforts just did not work. But I tried to take the high road. “Well that didn’t end the way I expected, but at least no one important died.“

Pray for Rev. Lorenzo Collado, association president, as he ministers to pastors in the United States. Pray for God’s wisdom as he leads the association, and that he can provide a training seminar with the purpose of bringing awareness for soul care among the pastors and their families.

The next phases included requesting the Small Group Ministry to alert their Group Leaders of the opportunity to serve the Church; both individually and/or as a small group. This was closely followed by a similar request to both the Men’s, Women’s, and High School /Middle School Youth ministries. I requested that if they were willing to get the word out to us to please make it an in-person and personal appeal at their meetings (again, because general “we need help” emails tend to be ineffective). I also made myself available to attend any event or presentation.

Many churches are experiencing economic hardships at this time, and the Methodist church is no exception. In addition to drops in attendance over the last half century, Religion News reports “The percentage of a church member’s income given to the church dropped to 2.3 percent in 2011 (the latest year for which numbers are available), down from 2.4 percent in 2010, according to the Empty Tomb study.” (Burgess) Because of this, many churches are feeling the strains of limited funds. But, there are ways that I believe that the church could possibly improve their situation. The problems include people treating the church as a free rider program, the church being used as a common pool resource, and people acting so that the church becomes a tragedy of the commons. Near the end, a solution will be offered, and it will be explored whether this solution lines up with the church in a normative manner.

David Mains has laid it out very simply the differences between a healthy family/church and a dysfunctional one. From experience, the eight he has highlighted are indicative of many churches I have attended over the years. The family health is the key to a healthy church. One cannot turn the proverbial switch on and off as one would please. For the church, the health starts at the top of the leadership chain. As leadership goes, so goes the congregation. Therefore, it is important to pray for your pastors and encourage them in the Lord, and they likewise will pray for the members. The additional readings at the end of each chapter say the same thing as Mains, but with a slant from that author’s viewpoint. I have gone through the book and highlighted

In this chapter it begins off with Ben talking about what I would assume be a Sunday because he is talking about a sermon and how everywhere you go you hear people singing the Gospel. And he describes what the church looks like. And he goes on talking about how he attended a sermon in which he had come in stubborn and then feeling soft and guilty he decided to empty his pockets for the offertory. And he goes on about how the sermon goes in church. This makes me think of how when I go to church I usually feel guilty throughout the sermon for all my sins and wrong doings.

There are few congregational conditions more frustrating than being “plateaued.” Members are regularly attending services, leaders are actively serving, yet nothing really seems to change. One remedy for churches that feel “stuck” is a short survey.

that was led by a woman, and being that I'm all for women empowerment I knew I had to go to one of her services. It was brought to my attention that there seems to be a lot of female pastors, but this is the only female pastor I have heard of that has their own facility. Trinity Baptist church of Hartwell Ga was a founded in 2013 by Pastor Gail Blackwell. She started her ministry in a building at one of the local shopping centers, it was there where she built a strong and faithful congregation. Recently, Pastor Gail was able to purchase her very own sanctuary. Her sanctuary is located at 152 Peachtree St, Hartwell, Georgia.

“The Holy Spirit lives in us and empowers us to live as God wants us to live. He was prophesied in

We are a family-oriented church, many of the miracles we experience concern emotional and spiritual healing in families. It is our belief that the building blocks of a strong church are strong families. As a result, we seek to provide a spiritual support system for our families and we would love to be of help both to you and your family.