What This Seminar is About:

• A “Healing the Heart of Your Church” seminar is the first step toward a fresh outpouring of God’s grace on your ministry.  It shows you how to lead your church to the point of corporate and spiritual renewal.  If you have not already done so you should begin this process by reading the book, Healing the Heart of Your Church, by Dr. Kenneth Quick.

• The seminar outlines the principles that make a church healthy again.  A “healthy church” is one that is becoming all that the Lord of the church meant it to be, experiencing His life, love and power flowing into and through it.  It is not stuck under His discipline, which creates a pattern of repetitive pain which can last for decades.

• The seminar introduces biblical teaching that looks at a local church from God’s perspective.  This is different from the way most of us view our individual walks with the Lord.  We’ll learn that a local body of believers is more than a group of autonomous individuals gathered together under the same steeple.  But rather, God sees each church as a corporate whole and calls them to account for their corporate condition.

• The process introduced in the seminar is courageous work, some of the most courageous work church leaders will ever undertake.  But it is good work, and it promises a turnaround in the direction your church.
• Though available by itself, this seminar is the first stage of a three stage process.  It is followed by the Spiritual Journey of Your Church retreat.  See also "Our Ministry Process."

What This Seminar is Not About:

• This seminar is not about church growth principles but rather it addresses underlying problems that hinder fruit bearing ability.  Until these root issues are identified and addressed vision driven initiatives will fall short of producing healthy growing fruit.

• This seminar is not a formula for a successful church.  If your church is in pain (or has been in pain), you need to understand the divine significance of that pain, and the Scriptures tell us how to ascertain it.  If you plan to be in attendance begin to pray that the Lord would reveal the relevance of the seminar to your church.

What about logistics?

• The seminar lasts between 3-4 hours.  It answers such questions as: How do you fix the history of a church?  How does Jesus speak to a local church?   How does mediatorial authority relate to corporate healing? And finally, what is the biblical setting for making things right with God as a church?

• The seminar is geared for a church’s leadership, their spouses, past leaders and potential leaders as well as those who know the history of your church.  Anyone from your church is welcome though.

• A video projector with remote and laptop for the PowerPoint presentation are required.  (If the church does not have one of these, please let us know ahead of time.)

• Consider purchasing Healing the Heart of Your Church participant workbooks from Churchsmart Resources (www.churchsmart.com).  Participants can record notes from the discussions and reinforce the teaching, and later use the workbooks again at the retreat.