Step One: PersonalityDefining Your IdentityTo guide the church to construct the church’s missional statements (philosophy/personality) as a common link to ministry objectives, assessments, organizational structure, activities, and programs. This tool helps you easily monitor the execution of your plans and maintain the organizational integrity of your ministry.
The Healthy Church understands the value of creating missional statements describing its commitment to building the church with equal emphasis on the six New Testament purposes: vision, worship, fellowship, discipleship, ministry (serving), and outreach.
In the six key New Testament purposes, the Healthy Church addresses 77 missional components. Breaking it down, there are 23 components addressing the “focus” of those 6 New Testament purposes, 14 components addressing the “environment” where those ministries are implemented, 20 components that relate to “key results areas” that impact the effectiveness of those ministries and 20 components that can be used to “measure” your success in each of those New Testament purposes. The goal is to choose those components representing your long-term view of what you believe God wants your church to be.
The Healthy Church system creates missional statements that precisely reflect your choices from the choices you select to define your church ministry model. It also provides those missional statements in various formats … print to paper, export the content into a Word or Excel document, or create an actual brochure including your choice of graphics. In all forms, the content can be modified by the user.
The Healthy Church assists the church in articulating its ministry so that there is a consistent and unified document into which every major church ministry fits, creating a transferable philosophy of ministry through its missional statements.
