Steve Macchia
SERVANT LEADER | SPIRITUAL COMPANION
Becoming A Healthy Church (25th Anniversary Edition) is a practical manual to guide your church’s discernment and empower your leadership to shift toward prioritizing spiritual health. Pursuing the ten traits of a healthy church will bring depth, wholeness, and joy to your life together. In addition, CHAT (Church Health Assessment Tool) is a compatable, online tool to guide you forward in prayerful discernment and shared direction for the future.
“I loved reading Becoming a Healthy Church. It’s a wonderful tool that I recommend to every church that is serious about being purpose-driven.”
- Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life
Endorsements for Becoming A Healthy Church
If you have your health, you have everything; the old axiom about our bodies is equally true of our churches. Macchia goes straight to the heart of what churches need and can do to survive and thrive in the twenty-first century
— Dr. Leith Anderson
While there are many resources and voices that suggest how best to grow a church, few provide an accessible compass that points to God’s heart for His Church and how to lead others to know the same. Whether just beginning ministry, or as a seasoned leader, here is a tool that can be repeatedly referenced for all who lead congregations to become more and more like Jesus and who reflect His glory in our world.
— Rev. Dr. Jacky Gatliff
Stephen Macchia gives us the closest thing to a handbook on church renewal I have ever read. Becoming a Healthy Church will be kept on hand by every pastor and lay leader who yearns to see his or her congregation become the spiritually healthy, vibrant, reproductive church the Scripture reveals.
— Pastor Richard A. Germaine
The Discerning Leader Podcast
Explore how to practice a preference for God as you notice Him in every day living
The Discerning Leader podcast is for Christian leaders who are interested in discovering the joy of “practicing a preference for God” in all aspects of their personal lives and relationships, their leadership and service to others.