How Your congregation can develop the eight essential qualities of a healthy church

Natural Church Development

Christian A. Schwarz

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The Three-Color Gift Test: How to discover and utilize your God-given potentialThe Trinitarian Compass: How to connect commitment, power, and wisdomIncludes free tokens for online Tests

The 3 Colors of Your Gifts

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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.

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

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Detailed implementation guide for the Natural Church Development Process.

Implementation Guide To Natural Church Development

The ABC's of Natural Church Development

Paradigm Shift in the Church speaks about nothing less than a reformation. Some critics suggested that this term sounds rather lofty. That may be true. But Christian Schwarz is convinced that we will make no significant progress in our churches without changes as radical as those of the Reformation. In the Introduction to this book Schwarz says, 'Every reformation movement is confronted with an opposing force known as 'orthodoxy'. This was true in the days of the 16th century Reformation (when the opponent was Roman Catholic orthodoxy); it was true in the days of the Pietistic revival in Europe (which was opposed by orthodox Protestants); and the same seems to apply to the different movements that fight for a reformation of their churches today.' This book presents the theological paradigm that is the foundation of the practical tools and concepts behind natural church development. Natural church development is not just one church growth method among many, it is a different theological paradigm altogether. It introduces a different way of thinking for Christians. You may be wondering, can we really experience something like a new reformation in our days? Yes, in many churches around the globe there are signs that this is far more than a vague hope.

Paradigm Shift in the Church: How Natural Church Development Can Transform Theological Thinking

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Would you like to use your spiritual gifts to their full potential? The 3 Colors of Ministry presents a holistic approach to identifying and developing your spiritual gifts. It is based on the three dimensions of God's nature, for which the author has chosen the colors of green, red and blue. In addition to emphasizing the critical importance of using your gifts in an authentically trinitarian way, this book shows you where you most need to focus your energies in order to bring this kind of balance to your Christian service. The natural result will be increased effectiveness. A gift test is included with this resource.

The 3 Colors of Ministry : A Trinitarian Approach to Identifying and Developing Your Spiritual Gifts

Would you like to help your team or small group discover and release their spiritual gifts together?How does this leader's guide help you?Step-by-step instructions and checklists will guide you throughThe format of the guide gives you the flexibility to to approach the topic in one, three, six, or twelve sessionsSession outlines will allow you to work through the process with minimal preparation if time is limitedWhat's in the book?"A Three-Colour Group is a regular gathering of believers intent on growing as Three-Colour Christians, ideally, within the context of a Three-Colour Church. It is not a "new" small group concept designed to substitute existing ones. It is, rather, and attempt to add new dimensions to existing groups (such as prayer meetings, Bible study groups, cell groups, committees, ministry teams, etc.). All of these groups are encouraged to retain their own style; although, depending on their starting points, they will add new dimensions of experience to their group group life. A Three-Color Group is characterised by three "pillars" that will be described in this book: (1) "Discovering the 'all-by-itself' principle," (2) "Bringing the Bible to life," and (3) "Striving for spiritual balance."." Christian A. Schwarz &amp; Brigitte Berief-SchwarzChapter 1: What is a Three-Colour Group (including)...Pillar 1: Discovering the "all-by-itself" principlePillar 2: Bringing the Bible to lifePillar 3: Striving for spiritual balanceChapter 2: Before starting the process (including)...Different kinds of groupsShortening the processGroup leader's checklistsChapter 3: The individual group sessions

How To Study "The 3 Colors of Ministry" in Your Small Group

Die 3 Farben deiner Gaben: Wie jeder Christ seine geistlichen Gaben entdecken und entfalten kann

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Desarrollo Natural de la Iglesia en la Practica [Paperback]
Christian A. Schwarz (Author), Christoph Schalk (Author)

Desarrollo Natural de la Iglesia en la Practica

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