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Turn It Around, or Put One Between Its Eyes – Tim Spivey on Turnaround Churches
As I mentioned here, I’ll be archiving resources to help with church revitalization efforts on westcoastwitness.com.
Tim Spivey has been writing a series on Turnaround Churches, and so far he’s made five entries.
I’m not sure if more are coming or not (since he hasn’t answered my question about that :p), but here are those that have been posted so far:
- Turnaround Churches – Intro
- Turnaround Churches pt. 1 – Diagnosis and Humility
- Turnaround Churches pt. 2 – Spiritual Renewal
- Turnaround Churches pt. 3 – Mission
- Turnaround Churches pt. 4 – Structure
- Turnaround Churches pt. 5 – Fresh Air
- Turnaround Churches pt. 6 – Leadership
I could only locate parts 1-4 of this series, but they’re numbered through five. It appears that either #3 is missing, or Tim made a mistake in the numbering.
Anyway, I encourage you to read these entries – good stuff.
Notes From the Pepperdine Lectures – Tim Spivey
Notes from Tim Spivey’s class – “The Word Made Flesh” – Friday, 8:30AM
- A lot of church consultants and resource people talk about “closing the back door of your church,” but if your church is functioning properly it will always have people who leave.
- Spiritually healthy people tend to leave unhealthy churches, spiritually unhealthy people tend to leave healthy churches.
- “The body is made to pass waste” (lol)
- The body has an immune system – when the immune system erodes, the body gets sick.
- “Nobody says cancer deserves a place in the body!”
- If a core person leaves – a person who helps form the spiritual backbone of your church – then something may be wrong with the health of your church. But if someone leaves who is uninvolved or is a constant complainer/troublemaker, then the body is simply functioning as it should.
- Moral: your church may need more fiber.
I only caught the tail end of this class (I actually showed up early for the class that was to be in that room next), but enjoyed what I heard. I’m not sure if those bullet points were part of his main lecture on “The Word Made Flesh,” or if he was saying those things in response to a question (I think he may have been answering a question).
Check out Tim’s review of the Pepperdine lectures. He’s right, the Pepperdine Lectures have no rival.
More notes from other classes coming in future posts.
Happy Monday!
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