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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...

influencing people by charisma or intellect. We are spiritual leaders. We model what it means to follow the Spirit’s leading, to be Spirit-controlled, to be in biblical language, “filled with the Spirit.” How, then, is a person filled with the Holy Spirit? While being filled with the Spirit is mentioned several times in Acts and commanded in Ephesians 5:18, no biblical formula guarantees the experience. For example, believers were filled with the Spirit when the church was inaugurated (Acts 2:4); Peter was