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Tom Halloway, executive and teaching pastor of Saddleback Church had a series of questions to evaluate the Church’s effectiveness, and as usual, being a usual skeptic of Rick Warren’s ministry, i question the validity of having a couple of questions to evaluate the church’s effectiveness.
First, is the size of the church an indication of the effectiveness of a church, or can the ratio of people involving in small group or ministry an indication of the health of a church? With these quantitative analysis of the Church, it is hardly a genuine reflection of the true spiritual health of the church. A big church or an extremely busy church is by no mean a spiritual healthy church. God does not look to the size, cos first, the church is by itself measured as an entire body – the Church. Can one measure that the index finger is better than the pinky cos of its size or usefulness? or that the head is better than the intestine? Second, God measures its health and wealth through their faith, not through material wealth or richness in their program or their busy ministry, look to every churches in the Book of Revelation, or in the Book of Acts. Third, i question such intent to measure the health of the church, to what end or purpose will they achieve in doing that?
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