How do we know if the church is healthy? Should we look at Sunday morning attendance,

the number of conversions, the size of the offerings, or some other metric? Dr. David K.

Bernard shares his thoughts on this important question on this episode of Apostolic Life

in the 21st Century. Welcome to Apostolic Life in the 21st Century, a podcast dedicated to

helping modern day believers live out the teachings of the first century church. This podcast is

part of the teaching ministry of Dr. David K. Bernard. Dr. Bernard is dedicated his life to studying

the Bible and helping believers apply its message

to their daily lives. In apostolic life in the 21st century, Dr. Bernard answers your questions

about what the Bible teaches and how those teachings apply to everyday life. Thank you for

joining us for this episode. It's probably safe to say that most of the people who listen to this podcast attend to church.

At least we hope they do.

We hope they attend an apostolic Pentecostal church.

It's probably also a safe assumption to say that most of our audience members,

they want to attend a spiritually healthy, growing church. But the question is, how do we know if a church is

healthy? Is it a matter of attendance? Is it conversions? Is it how much is coming into the offering?

Or is there some other metric that we can look at to determine whether a church is healthy?

What should we look for when trying to determine the health

of a church? Well, to answer this question, I would first go to Acts Chapter 2. In Acts 2, we have the

birthday of the Christian church. And at the end of the chapter, we have an example or a paradigm

of what a healthy church should be like. So we find that 120 received the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost initially,

and then after Peter preached, the crowd responded.

Three thousand were added to the church that day.

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