Natural Church Development

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Natural Church Development
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• Christian Schwarz studied to date
• 40,000 churches
• 60 countries
• 25 languages
• 20,000 church
• in USA
• and discovered
• 8 common
• characteristics of
• health

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Three things can be said about these eight
characteristics because of this extensive
research

• ? The Natural Church Development principles are
  universally valid.
• ? The Natural Church Development principles are
  transferred to any size church.
• ? The Natural Church Development principles have
  a positive relationship with both the quality and
  the quantitative growth of the church.

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The Biblical Conceptof Natural Church
Development Mark 426-29

• The kingdom of God is as if someone would
  scatter seed on the ground and rise and sleep
  night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow
  -- he does not know how.
• The earth produces the crops BY ITSELF first the
  blade, then the head, and then the mature grain
  in the head.

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His Research Proved that. . .

• Healthy churches are growing churches
• quality can be measured!

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Natural Church DevelopmentsEight
CharacteristicsOf Health
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The 8 Quality Characteristics Are
Acts 2 42-47

• Empowering

Leadership
Ministry

• Gift-oriented

Spirituality

• Passionate

Structures

• Functional

Worship

• Inspiring

Small Groups

• Holistic

Evangelism

• Need-oriented

Relationships

• Loving

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Learn how your church can benefit from this
surveycontact

• Church Staff Development Director
• Sylvan Knobloch
• 217-786-2600 Ext 133
• or
• sylvanknobloch_at_ibsa.org