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Would you like someone on your team to explore the background and principles of Natural Church Development?

How does this book help you?

• The basis of NCD's research into more than 45,000 churches is explained
• Key findings behind each of the 8 quality characteristics are explained
• The cycle of church development between what God does and what we do is presented
• Foundations upon which the minimum factor principle sits are outlined

What's in the book?

Introduction: (including)...

• What is Natural Church Development?
• The "all by itself" principle

Part 1: Eight quality characteristics (including)...

• Demythologising church growth
• The international research project
• The eight quality characteristics
• Are large churches "good" churches?

Part 2: The minimum factor (including)...

• Focusing our energies
• The minimum barrel
• Parallels from agriculture
• Beware of "models!"

Part 3: Six growth forces (including)...

• Technocratic or natural?
• The six growth forces
• Learning to think naturally

Part 4: A new paradigm (including)...

• Balanced images in the Bible
• The effect of wrong paradigms
• Can we "make" a church grow?

Part 5: The NCD Growth Spiral (including)...

• Information, application, transformation
• The six phases of the cycle
• An ongoing process
• Church growth in the power of the Holy Spirit

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