Prevailing Churches

PREVAILING CHURCHES

Bill Hybels, pastor of Willow Creek Church listed the five qualities of prevailing churches.

1. Prevailing Churches are those where lost people are being found. "The only thing worse than a church where no-one is finding Christ is a church where no-one is finding Christ and no-one is really bothered by that."

2. Prevailing Churches are those where found people are being discipled into the likeness of Jesus.

3. Prevailing Churches are those where lonely people are enfolded in a community of love. One of the highest values in the New Testament is that of community.

4. Prevailing Churches are those where spectators leave the stands, find their spiritual gifts and start serving in the church. "You would never ask anyone in our church if they serve in the church. That's a terrible question. It's unthinkable that you wouldn't serve Jesus in your local church. So we never ask if they serve but where they serve."

5. Prevailing Churches release resources to the work of God in the church and among the poor. "Budgets are moral documents. Tell me you care for the poor and then show me in your budget."