How Church Culture Becomes Toxic

And what we can do to create healthy spiritual cultures

Heart beat

I’ve been wondering a lot about how church cultures become toxic and unhealthy. I’ve reached a few conclusions. Here are three reasons church communities have lapsed into toxic messes in our time—and what I’m doing to build a healthy spiritual culture in the church I guide.

THEOLOGICAL TOXICITY: GOD IS MISSING IN CHURCH

In 1961, A. W. Tozer wrot…