{"id":45,"date":"2009-10-24T22:26:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T03:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2009-10-24T22:38:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T03:38:27","slug":"what-doesnt-impress-me-about-your-thriving-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/archives\/45","title":{"rendered":"What Doesn’t Impress Me About Your Thriving Church"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. The hundreds or thousands of people who’ve decided to pick your church to attend.<\/li>\n
  2. How smooth your worship services are executed.<\/li>\n
  3. The modern facilities you’ve developed.<\/li>\n
  4. The focus of God bettering your life that your church baits its congregants with week after week.<\/li>\n
  5. You’ve got programs for every age group (Infant Bible Quiz) and every stage of life (the Ex-Chef Recovery Program)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So what does impress me about your church?<\/p>\n

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    1. How it is giving more money away than spending on its own ministry costs.<\/li>\n
    2. Your worship services are real, not produced.<\/li>\n
    3. Rather than simply amass oceans of people, your church has churned out so many incredible leaders for Christ taking a stand in their church (even if it’s not yours anymore), workplace\/school, and family.<\/li>\n
    4. The focus for your church is to serve God and his interests, not how God can help us and our interests.<\/li>\n
    5. You don’t need all those programs that other churches must hire full-time staff members to run, because your congregation assumes the responsibility to love and disciple one another.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The hundreds or thousands of people who’ve decided to pick your church to attend. How smooth your worship services are executed. The modern facilities you’ve developed. The focus of God bettering your life that your church baits its congregants with week after week. You’ve got programs for every age group (Infant Bible Quiz) and every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-church-world","category-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}