Building a Healthy Church

Practical Partnership

A healthy church is not built through isolated effort, but through believers working together within an apostolic field. Drawing from his own experience of building church with the help of other leaders, Brad Verreynne explores what practical partnership looks like - serving together, listening to one another, and making room for the grace gifts God has placed beyond the local congregation.

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For me, I've grown up in the church, and I've grown up with a father and my mother and father both loved the Lord and have loved the church all their lives. And that's been a major factor for me, just building into my own life. Just a real sense of call to God and to the church and and just a complete and total devotion to the Body of Christ from the very beginning of planting Oxygen Life Church, we have opened our lives up to to others and specifically to those who've gone before us.

Those who we recognize. Their gifts are bigger than mine, bigger than ours. And and they've been down the road, been where we haven't been yet, and recognized that we need them, that we need the input into our lives. We need their help to build Oxygen Life Church. So we've always—and I've always—made sure that my own life is accountable to guys outside of those within the church and that we're completely open to being led by the Spirit through the input of gifts that are outside of Oxygen Life Church.

Building a Healthy Church Through Apostolic and Prophetic Partnership

And I think that is one of the reasons that we have a healthy church, working alongside apostolic gifts, working alongside prophetic gifts, and having them come into the church, having them give perspective in my own life, to my own life, to our marriage, to our leadership styles, to the church and the direction of the church, the doctrine of the church, the discipline in the life of the church. I remember in the first two or three years of the church contacting Andrew regularly—once a week, once every two weeks—finding other guys around me who were in similar stages or who had been beyond where I'd been.

And I think that input into my life was invaluable and had a massive impact in the life of the church and helped us to build correctly.

Brad Verreynne

Brad serves in leadership within Four12 (F12) and planted multisite, Oxygen Life Church in 2002. Brad has been married to Angela since 1998, and they have three children. Their family relocated to Australia in 2025 to work into King and Saints Church. Follow Brad’s podcast for more.

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