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Contents

The Editorial Team

A Word from the Chair of MODEM on 101 Great Ideas for Growing Healthy Churches

An Introduction to 101 Great Ideas for Growing Healthy Churches

A Spiritual Reflection on 101 Great Ideas for Growing Healthy Churches

A Business Perspective on 101 Great Ideas for Growing Healthy Churches

1. Agree a Vision

2. Ask the Lord his Business

3. Aspire to be Great

4. Avoid Judging other People

5. Be a Listening Church

6. Be Able to Say Sorry

7. Be About Your Father’s Business – Part 1

8. Be About Your Father’s Business – Part 2

9. Be an Agent for Change

10. Be Discontented!

11. Be Friendly with Science and Medicine

12. Be Inclusive, not Divisive

13. Be ‘In-house’ and ‘Out-house’

14. Be in the Business of Making Disciples

15. Believe that You too can Change the Church

16. Be the Centre of Community not a Satellite

17. Be the Church of God

18. Be Mindful of Management

19. Be Personally Effective

20. Be Witnesses in the Workplace

21. Bring God Into Everyday Life

22. Care for the Co-habiting

23. Change the Way we Make Decisions

24. Come for Tea, Come for Tea, my People

25. Count the Cost

26. Create a Community Arts Project

27. Create a Holiday Club

28. Delegate with Confidence

29. Delight in Leading Well

30. Develop and Grow Together

31. Develop the Talents of Others

32. Distil Some Passion Stew!

33. Do it for Them, not for Yourself

34. Do the Things that Matter

35. Don’t be Suspicious of Economics

36. Don’t Recruit – Evangelize!

37. Don’t Throw out the Baby with the Baptism Water

38. Dream Dreams

39. Dream in Metaphors and Stories for Organizational Change

40. Embrace those on the Final Journey

41. Embrace Change

42. Embrace Failure

43. Embrace the Social Media

44. Enable Effective Partnering

45. Engage in Radical Surgery

46. Engage Openly with Disagreement

47. Engage in the Power of Advertising

48. Establish a Lay-led Church Plant

49. Expand the Community

50. Expect the Unexpected

51. Explore the Skills you Need

52. Fill Your Leadership Space

53. Form a Messy Church

54. Get Social with the Media

55. God has Provided – now Manage it

56. Have a Biblical Vision

57. Have a Metric for Rural Church Management

58. Have an Ethical Propaganda

59. Hold Mid-week Meetings

60. Face Up to It – It’s a Business

61. Incorporate the Green

62. Keep Critical Statistics

63. Know What Faith Is

64. Know What’s Important

65. Learn How to Listen

66. Learn to Live the Life of Love

67. Let My People Serve!

68. Listen Twice Speak Once

69. Live in and of the Faith

70. Look Again and Check it

71. Maintain your Spiritual Health

72. Make the Most of Your Buildings

73. Make Use of Business Consultants

74. Make Your Church a World Church

75. Make Yourself into an Ordained Entrepreneur

76. Manage Your Meetings

77. Manage Yourself

78. Mind Your Own Business!

79. Move on into New Ways of Being and Doing

80. Move Your Vision from Me to We

81. Offer Quality Worship

82. Plan Ahead and in Detail

83. Plan Good Public Relations

84. Prepare Your Congregational Vision

85. Process and Structure

86. Reach Out

87. Reflect, Receive and Report

88. Samaritans – a Structure for Support

89. See the World as Christ sees the World

90. Serve by Leading – Lead by Serving

91. Strive for Healthy Growth and Unity

92. Take ‘An Hour Out’

93. Teach the Whole Counsel of God

94. The Children Shall Lead if we Let Them

95. Time Your Work and Plan for Neglect

96. Vary Your Worship Style

97. What are You Selling?

98. Work Out Where You are Going

99. Work to Build the House of Prayer for All Nations

100. Work with the Workers

101. Worship, Lead and Manage

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