Session 4 – CHARACTERISTICS OF GROWING CHURCHES
Take Your Church’s Pulse Tool
Take Your Church’s Pulse (TYCP) is an instrument that can help you diagnose your congregation’s health by evaluating several key areas of church life. It serves as a tool for self-evaluation and planning in the local church, two important processes for churches that seek both quantitative and qualitative growth. This tool is provided free of charge by Multiplication Network on their website.
tycp.multiplicationnetwork.org
Action Plan for Module 10
Attend another church and imagine you are an unbeliever. Would you come back to that church? Why or why not? How does it compare to your church? What did you learn from this that will help you in your church?
Think about the churches in your area. Which of them are growing and which are not? Compare the characteristics of each to those discussed in this lesson. Which characteristics appear to be the reasons for their growth or lack thereof? Can you define other helpful traits?
Work through the Take Your Church’s Pulse tool with your church planting team available at http://edutecnologia.org/pulse/index. php?lang=en. Reflect on what your responses tell you about the growth of your church start.
Based on what you have learn through the activities above, write a 1-2 page report on the growth of your church plant addressing, among others, the following points. Give this report to your facilitator at the Module 10 training:
• Is your church growing? In what sense? Numerically? Spiritually? Socially? Some of these? All of these?
• Am I fulfilling my responsibility to equip the believers for ministry or am I trying to do it myself? How am I equipping them? Is it working?
• Why would an unbeliever want to come to my church? Why would a new believer want to stay? Can I make my church more receptive to them?
• Have I started a new church plant yet? Cell groups? If not, what am I waiting for?