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From Information to Transformation: The NCD Cycle - Week 10

Week 10 of the Small Church Guys series: Healthy Things Grow—A Biblical and Global Approach to Natural Church Development Churches rarely suffer from a complete lack of information. Pastors have sermons. Leadership books. Podcasts. Conferences. Bible studies. Training materials. Church-growth resources. Online courses. Most leaders can identify at least several things their church probably should improve. The harder problem is different: How does what we know actually become what we do—and eventually become who we are? A leadership team can understand the eight quality characteristics and remain unhealthy. A pastor can correctly identify the church’s minimum factor and never change it. A congregation can learn the six growth forces and continue operating exactly as before. An NCD survey can produce valuable information and then disappear into a filing cabinet. Information is important. But information by itself does not transform a church. That is why Natural Churc...
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Why More Programs May Be Making Your Church Less Healthy - Week 9

  Week 9 of the Small Church Guys series: Healthy Things Grow—A Biblical and Global Approach to Natural Church Development Churches often respond to problems by adding something. Attendance is down. Add an outreach event. Volunteers are tired. Launch a recruitment campaign. Families are struggling. Start a marriage ministry. Young people are disconnected. Create a youth program. Discipleship feels shallow. Add another class. Community engagement is weak. Schedule another service project. Sometimes a new ministry is exactly the right response. But sometimes the church does not need more. Sometimes it needs less. More programs can create the appearance of health while quietly weakening the congregation underneath. A church can become busier and less fruitful. More active and less focused. More organized and less sustainable. More impressive and less alive. Natural Church Development repeatedly distinguishes real health from superficial activity. Its training emp...
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