This work identifies ten of the most common challenges in the church and offers some very insightful strategies for their management and even prevention. It offers a prescription for church growth and health while examining such areas as ministry philosophy, Spirit dynamic, money, advertisement, building programs, sin management and other factors that contribute to the overall effectiveness, influence, and longevity of a ministry.

The pages of this work are filled with wonderful words of counsel and knowledge. Brief, concise, simple and profound, yet these proverbs provide an understanding into some of the most challenging issues. These insightful proverbial sayings will empower you to think and act in exciting new ways. There is so much wisdom between so few pages.

While there is no deficit of religious intelligence, there is a need for spiritual understanding. In essence, there is an intelligence that comprehends the divine-human connection with all of its privileges, promises, and responsibilities. This book is based upon this premise. Spiritual Intelligence is the ability to understand truths, facts, meanings, relationships, functions, and realities that are seen, unseen, heard and not heard. It is a privilege of the salvation experience that can be developed. While academic intelligence measures the ability to comprehend science, language, mathematics, and logical reasoning, it is not an adequate measurement of the capacity to understand information beyond the natural and sensory spheres. Spiritual Intelligence is an acquired sensitivity, awareness, and consciousness of the existence and integration of the divine-human connection.