Posted by Media Mission Dept. on Jun 12, 2010 in Church Growth, Featured Article | 3 comments
Love Quotient and Church Growth
Written By Rev.Dr. Joshua Hong
Senior Pastor of Full Gospel Church of Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
The church that loves grows and the church that grows loves. A prominent scholar on church growth, Dr. Charles Ahn presented a finding that love brings about the growth of church. He measured Love Quotient using 11 questions on love he devised. He distributed the...
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Posted by Media Mission Dept. on Jun 12, 2010 in Church Growth, Featured Article | 2 comments
Characteristics of a Healthy Church
Written By Rev.Dr. Joshua Hong
Senior Pastor of Full Gospel Church of Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Sometime ago I visited a museum of the human body and saw two lungs. One was a healthy organ with white hue and the other was a black, diseased, and cigarette smoke-absorbed organ. This simple observation caused me to realize the need for healthy body. Because the...
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Posted by Media Mission Dept. on May 21, 2010 in Church Growth, Featured Article | 2 comments
Lift High the Flag of Spiritual Warfare
Written By Rev.Dr. Joshua Hong
Senior Pastor of Full Gospel Church of Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Towards the end of September in 2006, I went to Vladivostok in Russia to lead a seminar on the spirituality of the fourth dimension. By the prophecy of the Holy Spirit our ministry was let know of the powerful evil force of alcoholism and divorce at work in...
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Posted by Media Mission Dept. on May 21, 2010 in Church Growth | 0 comments
Team Leadership and Church Growth
Written By Rev.Dr. Joshua Hong
Senior Pastor of Full Gospel Church of Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
A few years ago George Barna, the founder of a market research firm that studies church growth, wrote a book entitled Power of Team Leadership. In the book he concludes based on his observation and research of numerous churches in America that team leadership is...
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Posted by Media Mission Dept. on May 1, 2010 in Church Growth, Featured Article | 2 comments
Mentoring and Church Growth
Written By Rev.Dr. Joshua Hong
Senior Pastor of Full Gospel Church of Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Mentoring contributes to church growth. The missionary organizations and churches with a one on one discipleship program based on effective mentoring are reaping the fruits of success. I have many mentors overseas. One of them is a pastor named Tom Houston. He was a...
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Posted by Media Mission Dept. on May 1, 2010 in Church Growth, Featured Article | 2 comments
Church Revival is Dependent on Dedication of Staff
Written By Rev.Dr. Joshua Hong
Senior Pastor of Full Gospel Church of Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
There is one thing I learned from my studies and observation of church growth. That is in every growing and reviving church not only there is an excellent senior pastor but also there is dedicated and committed staff. What is required of these...
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Posted by Media Mission Dept. on May 1, 2010 in Church Growth, Featured Article | 0 comments
Church with Blessing of Mercy
Written By Rev.Dr. Joshua Hong
Senior Pastor of Full Gospel Church of Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
One of the things I have come to terms with from my research on church growth is that the church on which God looks upon with mercy is blessed and grows. To receive God’s blessing of mercy, we must not turn to our own wisdom or strength. We must come before the...
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Posted by Media Mission Dept. on May 1, 2010 in Church Growth | 0 comments
Church that Nurtures People Grow
Written By Rev.Dr. Joshua Hong
Senior Pastor of Full Gospel Church of Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
There is an ancient Chinese proverb,“ if your vision is good for one year, plant words. If it is for a decade, plant a tree. If it is for a lifetime, nurture people." I would like to add the following to this proverb. "If the vision of...
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Posted by Media Mission Dept. on Apr 24, 2010 in Church Growth, Featured Article | 3 comments
Develop Spiritual Brain Capital
Written By Rev.Dr. Joshua Hong
Senior Pastor of Full Gospel Church of Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
The 21st century is governed by brain capital rather than by financial capital. What is inside the heads of employees is indispensable to the continual development of a company. Yoohan Kimberly, the ever-growing business in Korea, places utmost emphasis on lifetime...
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