Three Keys to Growing Healthy Churches
2 Timothy 2:1-26
SERIES: Three Keys to Growing Healthy Churches Feeding the Flock SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: As a pastor in one of the dynamic growth areas for the Free Church, I am often asked by people within and outside our denomination, “What is the key to the success you have experienced in church planting and church growth?” They seem to be looking for some logistical secret, technique, or methodology they can copy that will result in automatic growth and multiplication. And, indeed, there are…
Acts 2:42-47
SERIES: Three Keys to Growing Healthy Churches Fostering Fellowship SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: I got a phone call Friday from David and Judy Constance, former members of our church who moved to Detroit six months ago. In the course of our conversation, I asked them how things were going. The boys were fine, David’s job was fine, the house was fine, the neighbors were fine, even the weather wasn’t bad. But church was another matter. They said they had attended 13 or 14 churches…
John 8:36; Galatians 5:1
SERIES: Three Keys to Growing Healthy Churches Fanning the Fires of Freedom SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Introduction: I believe there are three keys to planting and growing healthy churches: feeding, fellowship and freedom. So far in this series we have talked about how important it is to feed the flock and to foster fellowship. Now this morning I want us to talk about the third essential, which is that we must allow God’s people the freedom to grow up in Christ. Freedom is a…