We pray that the following general points
 will help you choose a healthy Church.

Eighteen Characteristics of Healthy Faith

1. Healthy faith starts in God and not in our own efforts

2. Healthy faith grows as we deal with the realities of life in light of God's truth

3. Healthy faith is respectful.  As Jesus received all in good faith and made a way for everyone so do we learn in the same way to respect others in good faith

4. God helps us all by giving us the courage to stand on our own two feet. Christians help one another as they do the same.

5. Healthy Church unity is expressed by many different parts working together and supporting each other as One Body

6. A healthy Church shows the same value for people as God showed by giving His only Son. Rejoice, You are Loved!

7. Healthy faith is not offended by rejection

8. Healthy faith trusts in God's strength, and not in the strength of others or our own. God is our strength!

9. As God brings out the best in all of us so does a healthy Church nurtures and protects the individuality of people. God does not desire a group of clones.

10. Just as God's love seeks to draw all men through Christ, so does a healthy Church seek to draw it's wider community to God through like acts of charity and kindness

11. A health Church recognises itself as a living part of the greater Body of Christ without claiming any exclusive rights to God's Grace or Love

12. Healthy faith does not divide people to "us" and "them". Jesus Christ is the Saviour of all mankind!

13. A healthy Church stands on its acts of charity and kindness and does not become defensive - it welcomes critical evaluation and tough questions

14. Just as the Lord Jesus came as a Servant so His Church seeks to serve people out of love and not to dominate them

15. Healthy Christians are non-judgemental, that is they don't judge other people

16. Healthy faith is Reality Based - it trusts in the supernatural power of God, and not in 'magic' cures for problems

17. Healthy faith enables us to embrace our emotions - love, anger, sorrow, sense of humour, etc It enables us to embrace our humanity - no illusion of perfection.

18. Healthy faith is the product of a healthy spirit and it is expressed as Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, faithfulness, Humility and self-control ( GAL 5: 22 )

*Please note the above only serves as a guide.

"God doesn't abuse His children, instead He helps them grow"

^{Rom 8:31} What can we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? ³² Since God did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t God, who gave us Christ, also give us everything else? ³³ Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? Will God? No! He is the one who has given us right standing with himself. ³⁴ Who then will condemn us? Will Christ Jesus? No, for he is the one who died for us and was raised to life for us and is sitting at the place of highest honour next to God, pleading for us. ³⁵ Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or are hungry or cold or in danger or threatened with death? ³⁶ (Even the Scriptures say, "For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.") ³⁷ No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. ³⁸ And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can’t, and life can’t. The angels can’t, and the demons can’t. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, and even the powers of hell can’t keep God’s love away. ³⁹ Whether we are high above the sky or in the deepest ocean, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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