Diagnosing the Heart of Your Church equips you to explore the systemic health of your church. It alerts you to areas of church life that need strengthening. It helps you recognize if you simply have a problem in one area or if an unseen infection has spread through your church body. It's designed to help you ask the right questions, questions leaders need to discuss candidly. Most importantly, it offers you a tool to assess your congregation's true health. What does assessing "systemic corporate dysfunction" mean? It means looking beyond the apparent condition of your church. "Systemic" functioning relates to spiritual and relational dynamics that operate behind the scenes (and have operated historically) in the body of a church. Many pastors and ministry leaders ignore the ramifications of such underlying spiritual and relational issues. This grave oversight (or perhaps better, "under-sight") always proves costly.
The Church Cardiology Series of books seeks to improve the corporate health of churches and ministries. Other titles in the series include, Healing the Heart of Your Church by Dr. Kenneth Quick, Sustaining the Heart of Your Church by Mark Barnard and the Healing the Heart of Your Church Facilitator's Guide and Participant Workbooks by Mark Barnard and Dr. Kenneth Quick.
Rev. Mark Barnard serves as President of Blessing Point Ministries. Blessing Point works to heal ministries that have been wounded by painful crises. Mark has a BA in Bible and an MA in Pastoral Studies. He authored The Path of Revival: Restoring Our Nation One Church at a Time, and Joseph Unrobed: Holding on to Your Dreams When Life Seems Like a Nightmare. He coauthored The Eighth Letter: Jesus Still Speaks. Mark previously served in a variety of pastoral and teaching roles. He and his wife, Jeannie, reside in Peachtree City, GA.
