Creating the Environment for Growth
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Discover the 8 essential qualities that foster growth in church communities through empowering leadership, gift-based ministry, and passionate spirituality. This guide emphasizes the importance of effective structures, inspiring worship, holistic small groups, need-oriented outreach, and nurturing loving relationships within the church. Learn how to create an environment that nurtures spiritual development and meets the needs of the congregation and the surrounding community.
Creating the Environment for Growth
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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 Small Groups Outreach Relationships
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
Gift-based Ministry • Members are helped to identify their gifts • Gifts, passion and personality matched to ministries • Joy and fulfilment in serving
Passionate Spirituality • Hunger for God • Strong in Prayer • Personal spiritual disciplines • Holiness, obedience
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
Effective Structures But I love our traditions!
Effective Structures • All ministries have goals • Flexibility • Willing to change able to adapt • Serve the ministries
Inspiring Worship Psalm 122:1 I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”
Holistic Small Groups • Worship • Bible Study • Fellowship • Prayer • Service • Outreach
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
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
Loving Relationships • Atmosphere of joy and trust • Forgiving and Fun • Affirmation and encouragement • Prayer for one another
8 Essential Qualities • Empowering Leadership • Gift-based Ministry • Passionate Spirituality • Effective Structures • Inspiring Worship • Holistic Small Groups • Need-oriented Outreach • Loving Relationships