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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...

Antioch, let’s establish the parameters for developing a transformational church model based on this ancient congregation. Antioch is an example, a model that can be used as a case study. We are fortunate to have a thorough record of this church in the Bible, but we don’t have every detail about its form or function. We do have an inspired description, complete with details about crucial incidents and practices, revealing timeless principles about church life. While the biblical narrative about Antioch