Recently I have been confronted a few times with the\nquestion whether it is absolutely necessary for the seetal chile to continue to grow.\nneed to grow. After I preached in August about the \"Great Commission\" from Matthew 28\nsome thought that it was all about the church growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Obviously I have\ncommunicated this verbally and non-verbally over the last few years. It's true, my\nframe of mind was shaped by a phrase I heard from Rick Warren in the\nRick Warren from the community building movement. He writes: What is healthy\ngrows all by itself<\/strong>. What is meant by this is that healthy congregations\ngrow all by themselves. The converse is also true: if a congregation does not grow\nIf a congregation is not growing, then something must be sick or wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the meantime\nthis sentence as simply wrong and turn away from it. I am sorry\nif I have embodied this enslaving principle. It is precisely a look at nature\nnature shows that it is precisely not the case that every healthy organism\norganism grows and grows. Healthy human beings or ants or trees do not grow\ngrow and grow. Once the genetically predetermined size has been reached, it is much\nis about constant renewal and no longer about growth. In the same way, the\nsize of a congregation is more likely to be predetermined by God than to be constantly\nthrough the healthiest possible principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I do not know whether the God-given greatness has already been reached in the seetal chile. Because this question is not important, I do not want to focus on it. Regardless of the size of the church, the point is to be renewed, to be on the way to the people and to bring heaven to earth. Let us leave it up to God whether this results in numerical growth or not. What is certain is that there are parameters that are much more meaningful for the health of a church than its size. I will write about that next month! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n Foreword from the seetal chile Poscht 10\/2019<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently, I have been confronted a few times with the question of whether seetal chile necessarily still needs to grow. After I preached in August on the \"Great Commission\" from Matthew 28, some believed that it was all about the church growing. Obviously, I have been saying this verbally and non-verbally for the last few years....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-herzschlag"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.seetal-chile.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}