Life Cycle Chart How many churches develop From

Life Cycle Chart How many churches develop From beginning to end

Effective Ministry Serves ministry Flexible, Adaptable Simple Leads to the future Structure Goals Beliefs Dream BIRTH Solution oriented Growth Oriented Plans High Morale Creative Planning Faith We can do IT that way Think as a Team Values Unity High tolerance Obvious harmony Vision People gather together Dream MAINTENANCE Plateau Lost vision DECLINE Apathy Obligation Control Accomplishments Desires guarantees Relaxes faith Tradition Evangelism optional Maintenance Safety Inward focus Serves bureaucracy Rigid and changeless Complex Looks to the past Problem oriented Survival Oriented Paralysis Questioning Low Morale Allocation Planning Doubt We have never done it that way Think as individuals Polarization Differences Division Low tolerance Intense conflict Implode People leave Drop out DEATH Original chart by Titus Ministries - www. titus-ministries. org The Life Cycle of Too Many Churches Opportunity Cooperation Achievement MATURITY Requires risk Exercises faith Innovation Evangelism imperative Growth Sacrifice GROWTH Outward focus

Effective Ministry Serves ministry Flexible, Adaptable Simple Leads to the future Structure Goals Beliefs Dream BIRTH Solution oriented Growth Oriented Plans High Morale Creative Planning Faith We can do IT that way Think as a Team Values Unity High tolerance Obvious harmony Vision People gather together Dream MAINTENANCE Plateau Lost vision DECLINE Apathy Obligation Control Accomplishments Desires guarantees Relaxes faith Tradition Evangelism optional Maintenance Safety Inward focus Serves bureaucracy Rigid and changeless Complex Looks to the past Problem oriented Survival Oriented Paralysis Questioning Low Morale Allocation Planning Doubt We have never done it that way Think as individuals Polarization Differences Division Low tolerance Intense conflict Implode People leave Drop out DEATH Original chart by Titus Ministries - www. titus-ministries. org The Life Cycle of Too Many Churches Opportunity Cooperation Achievement MATURITY Requires risk Exercises faith Innovation Evangelism imperative Growth Sacrifice GROWTH Outward focus

Effective Ministry The Life Cycle of a Healthy Church Structure Goals Effective Ministry Structure Goals Beliefs The Dream Beliefs New Dreams

Effective Ministry The Life Cycle of a Healthy Church Structure Goals Beliefs The Dream Beliefs New Dreams Original chart by Titus Ministries - www. titus-ministries. org Effective Ministry

The church at Ephesus through the years 70’s AD Fallen Revelation 2: 2 -5 I know thy works, and thy toil and patience, and that thou canst not bear evil men, and didst try them that call themselves apostles, and they are not, and didst find them false; 3 and thou hast patience and didst bear for my name's sake, and hast not grown weary. 4 But I have this against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love. 5 Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I come to thee, and will move thy candlestick out of its place, except thou repent. when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine, Preachers: Paul Apollos Timothy Maturity Growth Faction Letter to the Ephesians Exhortation to unity Ephesians 1: 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints that are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: one generation 1 Timothy 1: 3 As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, Acts 20: 17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to him the elders of the church. Acts 19: 1, 10 … Paul having passed through the upper country came to Beginnings Ephesus… 10 And this continued for the space of two years; so that all they that dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks. Acts 18: 19 -21 And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. 20 And when they asked him to abide a longer time, he consented not; 21 but taking his leave of them, and saying, I will return again unto you if God will, he set sail from Ephesus. 50’s AD

The church at Ephesus through the years 70’s AD Fallen Revelation 2: 2 -5 I know thy works, and thy toil and patience, and that thou canst not bear evil men, and didst try them that call themselves apostles, and they are not, and didst find them false; 3 and thou hast patience and didst bear for my name's sake, and hast not grown weary. 4 But I have this against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love. 5 Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I come to thee, and will move thy candlestick out of its place, except thou repent. when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine, Preachers: Paul Apollos Timothy Maturity Growth Faction Letter to the Ephesians Exhortation to unity Ephesians 1: 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints that are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: one generation 1 Timothy 1: 3 As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, Acts 20: 17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to him the elders of the church. Acts 19: 1, 10 … Paul having passed through the upper country came to Beginnings Ephesus… 10 And this continued for the space of two years; so that all they that dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks. Acts 18: 19 -21 And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. 20 And when they asked him to abide a longer time, he consented not; 21 but taking his leave of them, and saying, I will return again unto you if God will, he set sail from Ephesus. 50’s AD