Where is your power going?
What could be your greatest contribution?
What's fueling your fire?
How well are you using all you have?
What happens when you enter the room?
How well do you play with others?
How fulfilling is your life?
What love do you have to give?
The campfire’s nearly set—get ready to gather ’round!
If you have a gifted evangelist in your church, ask them to explain why and how they share the Gospel with others.
Devise a way for your church to share the Gospel using social media.
Gather a group together in your church to map the needs of the surrounding community. Share your findings with others in the church, including the leadership.
Write down the names of three friends or relatives, then write down three needs for each. Make time to offer a short prayer for each person every day based on those needs.
If you have a gifted evangelist in your church, ask them how, based on your gifts, you could work with them to grow fully devoted followers of Christ.
If there is a new Christian in your church, ask how they are going and how you might help meet any needs they have.
Find a way to get a modern translation of the Bible into the pews of your church.
What if, rather than just sharing personal opinions, we could hear from more than 15 000 Salvationists in over 20 countries about the health of local corps ministry? What if we could then test those perspectives against a global Christianity database covering more than 70 countries and over 100 diverse denominations? Would that be valuable information?
Well, this is the first of a series of articles presenting some of the findings of exactly that kind of research. For more than a decade, the Natural Church Development process has been operating in corps around the world.
Analyze how much of what you sing in church actually focuses your attention on God, teaching or reminding you about His nature and purposes.
Consider what "messages" your church leaders send about their belief in your church's future and speak to them about your observations in an encouraging way.
The purpose of this series is to offer some basic “entry points” for beginning to explore your Minimum Factor graph.
This post is for those whose Minimum Factor is Need-oriented Evangelism.
Two initial points need to be made.
Speak with at least one person you do not normally speak to at the worship service this week.
As my wife and I started this journey, we both immediately began to relate non christian family members to different styles. This has opened our eyes to look at different ways to show Christ according to how the person relates to spiritual issues.
For example, it is obvious to us that one relative is rational, and another is mystical.
It certainly doesn't take a worldwide research project to convince people that church growth is inconceivable without evangelism. How else could the church grow if not through the process of sharing the gospel to bring more and more people into the body of Christ? This process is generally called "evangelism.”...The secret of need-oriented evangelism is (a) to grow in each of the areas of prayer, caring, and sharing, and (b) to bring these three dimensions into balance...
Empowering Leadership (EL) and Need-Oriented Evangelism (NOE) are the two Qaulity Characteristics (QCs) which I often lack to have enthusiasm for especially when it comes to me personally contributing something in these areas for the positive growth of my Church. I don't have leadership and evangelism in my "gift mix”, and together with a lack of NCD knowledge, it was little wonder that a while back I ended up concluding there was no point to even thinking about them. Thankfully, since then, God has shown me ways in which I can contribute to these QCs without "chea
Here are some 'Quality Characteristic Hand' photos I took that made up part of a thematic photo panel in the foyer of our church. At the bottom is a mock up of the photo panel itself.
You can click the photos to download the originals if you like.
Hope it is useful or prompts your own ideas.
