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Creating the Environment for Growth

Creating the Environment for Growth. The 8 Essential Qualities of Natural Church Development. 8 Essential Quality Characteristics. Empowering Gift-based Passionate Effective Inspiring Holistic Need-oriented Loving. Leadership Ministry Spirituality Structures Worship

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Creating the Environment for Growth

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  1. Creating the Environment for Growth The 8 Essential Qualities of Natural Church Development

  2. 8 Essential Quality Characteristics • Empowering • Gift-based • Passionate • Effective • Inspiring • Holistic • Need-oriented • Loving Leadership Ministry Spirituality Structures Worship Small Groups Outreach Relationships

  3. Empowering Leadership

  4. Empowering Leadership

  5. Empowering Leadership • Leaders train others for the ministry, rather than just doing it themselves • Not just the clergy, all leaders enable others. • Mentoring, equipping, coaching • On-the-job training • Apprentice leaders developed

  6. Super

  7. Gift-based Ministry

  8. Gift-based Ministry

  9. Gift-based Ministry • Members are helped to identify their gifts • Gifts, passion and personality matched to ministries • Joy and fulfilment in serving

  10. Passionate Spirituality

  11. Passionate Spirituality • Hunger for God • Strong in Prayer • Personal spiritual disciplines • Holiness, obedience

  12. Passionate Spirituality Almighty God,you have made us for yourself,and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you:pour your love into our hearts and draw us to yourself,and so bring us at last to your heavenly citywhere we shall see you face to face;through Jesus Christ our Lord. CW Collect – 17th Sunday after Trinity

  13. Effective Structures

  14. Effective Structures But I love our traditions!

  15. Effective Structures • All ministries have goals • Flexibility • Willing to change able to adapt • Serve the ministries

  16. Inspiring Worship

  17. Inspiring Worship Psalm 122:1 I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

  18. Holistic Small Groups

  19. Holistic Small Groups • Worship • Bible Study • Fellowship • Prayer • Service • Outreach

  20. Holistic Small Groups • A group that is small! • Ministering to each other’s felt needs: spiritual, emotional, physical, social • Using spiritual gifts • Bible application • Multiply

  21. Need-oriented Outreach

  22. Need-oriented Outreach

  23. Need-oriented Outreach • Aware of the felt needs of the community • Ministries meet felt needs • Members able to effectively share their faith • Services accessible to visitors • New believers assimilated

  24. Loving Relationships

  25. Loving Relationships • Atmosphere of joy and trust • Forgiving and Fun • Affirmation and encouragement • Prayer for one another

  26. 8 Essential Qualities • Empowering Leadership • Gift-based Ministry • Passionate Spirituality • Effective Structures • Inspiring Worship • Holistic Small Groups • Need-oriented Outreach • Loving Relationships

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