This is our first official episode of the podcast, and we’re kicking it off by dealing with the question all other episodes will be trying to answer, “What Is A Healthy Church?” To help us answer this 30,000ft question, I am excited to welcome our first guest, Dr. Bruce Hopler. Bruce is the Executive Director of Church Strengthening with Converge, our parent organization. Not only is Bruce an experienced and gifted leader in our movement, he is also my friend. This episode answers the following questions.

• What is Converge, and what is Dr.Hopler's role within Converge.
• 85% of churches in America are either declining or plateaued and plateaued really means declining most of the time. A short discussion about the reasons for this statistic?
• What are the most important pillars for a to a healthy church to build around?
• How important are numbers (3 B’s) in church health? What’s more important, quantitative or qualitative health?
•  If a church is in that 85% of declining churches, what’s the first thing they should think about?