What does Christian Doctrine have to do with Church Health?
A. Doctrine in the NT and Church Health Today, many people in a wide range of denominations and others are talking about, writing about and holding workshops about healthy churches and effective clergy. For the most part many of them come across like some church leadership books with just a sprinkling of Christian doctrine. Therefore, what does the Church catholic (universal) say to this hot topic? Very often, a NT epistle will address the whole congregation about certain matters, subsections about other issues, and individuals about important intrapersonal or interpersonal concerns. Each of these practical exhortations spring from some part of Christian doctrine focused on in the epistle. For example, the doctrinal teaching about Christ emptying himself in the first part of Philippians is applied to daily living in the latter section. Church and clergy health issues are treated similarly as the epistles of the New Testament address one or more of the sub-systems where a church needs b
