Natural Church Development: A Guide to Eight Essential

Natural Church Development: A Guide to Eight Essential Qualities of Healthy Churches
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Critics of the church growth movement have often emphasized the need for quality congregations. We should not focus on numerical growth, but rather, we should concentrate on qualitative growth.

Christian Schwarz has done extensive research world-wide and found that healthy, growing churches seem to share eight quality characteristics. These characteristics are:

Empowering leadership
Gift-oriented ministry
Passionate spirituality
Functional structures
Inspiring worship service
Holistic small groups
Need-oriented evangelism
Loving relationships
Schwarz uses the illustration of a barrel with eight staves to symbolize the eight quality characteristics. The barrel can only hold water to the height of the lowest stave. So too, Schwarz argues, a church can only grow as far as their 'Minimum factor,' which is the lowest of the eight quality characteristics in their church. He challenges churches to resist the temptation to work on improving areas in which they already excel, for by doing this they do not increase their minimum factor or their church quality.

This revised version of Natural Church Development now includes Schwarz's "3 Colors" teaching.
Country USA
Brand Brand: Churchsmart Resources
Manufacturer Churchsmart Resources
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber new18-03-012016-b0065829
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781889638003
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: Churchsmart Resources
Manufacturer	Churchsmart Resources
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	new18-03-012016-b0065829
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781889638003
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Natural Church Development: A Guide to Eight Essential Qualities of Healthy Churches

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