Introduction
The church must grow more and more but the growth of the church must include spiritual maturation and numerical increase.
The purpose of this thesis is to show the relation between three factors: first, biblical spirituality; second, sp...
Introduction
The church must grow more and more but the growth of the church must include spiritual maturation and numerical increase.
The purpose of this thesis is to show the relation between three factors: first, biblical spirituality; second, spiritual leadership, and third, a spiritually growing church through biblical spirituality and spiritual leadership.
Literature Review of Spirituality
Chapter two focused on biblical spirituality and integrative Spirituality development because spirituality has two aspects.
First we examined general spirituality, and saw that Christianity spirituality is general spirituality, involving many ideas and philosophical thinking, but general spirituality can not produce a mature person.
Christianity spirituality is the same as biblical spirituality and biblical spirituality means integrative spirituality.
Integrative spirituality is a process of living a life of growing self toward Christlikeness in a biblical relationship with God and people
Literature Review of Spiritual Leadership
This chapter focused on the biblical leadership and the biblical pastor.
The pastor modeling biblical leadership must always pray be full of the Word of God, be pious, and empathetic for the biblical leader's ultimate purpose, or the final goal of the leader's development, is Christ himself.
Christ is the eternal leader and the leadership of the church in the twenty-first century needs pastors who demonstrate biblical leadership and biblical spirituality.
Literature Review of Growing Churches
The church must growing by God's means but the growth of church has two points of view: the growth of the and the maturation of the church.
The growth and maturation of the church are related to biblical spirituality and biblical leadership.
This study focuses on three major areas: spirituality, leadership, and the growth of the church In biblical theory, these three major areas are inter lelated. The spiritual growth of the church cannot be discussed without emphasizing the concept of spirituality and leadership. so we find that the growth of the church though spirituality and leadership is biblical growth.