Vitality Downloads

The local church is God's basic unit of mission in the world. The Department of Church Growth and Evangelism exists for the local church. We are here for you. One of the ways that CGE supports the local church is to provide resources that ring true in the congregation. These resources bring to light the realities and complexities of congregational vitality.    

Our desire is that every Covenant Church become a healthy, missional church. By "healthy" we mean pursuing Christ. By "missional" we mean pursuing Christ's priorities in the world. We hope you find these resources helpful along the journey.

Veritas Seminar Handouts:

Service of Repentance
    A service of consecration to the Lord's Future

It Starts With the Soil 
    Values of vitality

Time For A Checkup
    Descriptions of 4 types of established churches

Strategies for four types of churches
    What actions should your church take?

20 Maxims
    From "Honor the Past" through "You Will be Broken",
    each of these is a proven maxim for established churches.

VIM Questions and VIM and the 7 churches
    VIM: Vision, Intention, Means
        - questions for pastors and congregations
        - VIM and the 7 churches of Revelation 

25 Key Questions
    Sometimes the right questions are more important than the answers

Healthy Missional Markers
    What are the marks of a healthy missional church?
    There is no definitive list, but this is a good starting point.

Behavioral Covenants
    Notes on behavioral covenants from John's presentation. 

Life After Veritas and Life after Veritas for the pastor
    You've been to Veritas. Now what?

Other Resources: 

Strategic Spiritual Journey
     From George Bullard, affiliated with the Alban Institute, this is a 143 page tutorial for congregational redevelopment
 
Johns-Book-List.doc
     A list of must-read books, compiled by John Wenrich, frequently updated 

Church Revitalization Bibliography     
     A bibliography of vitality resources, compiled by our friends at the Covenant Resource Center