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Seminary president Jeff Iorg looks back at the New Testament church in Antioch to find a biblical model of what healthy churches should look like today. Advising a principled approach in the context of this comparison, he shares methods for measuring church health that are based on hard data as well as discernable spiritual realities. Key areas of discussion include a church’s need to emphasize...

summer to fall and then winter, almost all churches eventually evolve from a movement to an institution. As more and more people are added to the membership, organization must be created to manage them and direct their combined efforts. Legal requirements, fiscal management, personnel matters, building construction, and the challenges of managing more and more people (a growing economy of scale) all lead to the development of institutional structures. This conclusion may surprise you: institutional development