By: Thomas F. Booher I want to explain something that I believe to be of the utmost importance. I think that we need to understand, in layman's terms, what a healthy church really is. We need to be be able to understand the biblical view of what a church ought to be doing, what it ought not to be doing, and we also need to be aware of potential pitfalls and hindrances to healthy churches, especially the ones that often manifest themselves in our own neck of the woods. I am going to assume that my audience has some familiarity with Reformed theology and the Westminster Standards. Otherwise this post would be far too long because it would require answering, not so much what is a healthy church, but what is a church in general. Of course, a church is a church. If it is doing what God has called it to do, it is going to be healthy. So what has God called the church to be? Well, to keep the scope where it needs to be for the purpose of this article, a church needs to
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