Anglican

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 Gift-based Ministry.

Two initial points need to be made.

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 Holistic Small Groups.

Two initial points need to be made.

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 Empowering Leadership.

Two initial points need to be made.

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 Loving Relationships.

Two initial points need to be made.

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 Passionate Spirituality.

Two initial points need to be made.

We have just completed "3 Colours ..". A struggle for many of our older traditional members. Personally found it interesting and challenging in that my 'opposite' style - actually 6th in order - is mystical and as a Christian pastor deceived by the 'protestant work ethic' I find it hard to justify sitting with my mind in neutral. Sometime ago a wise preacher reminded that we were created 'human beings' - not 'human doings'. That thought, God's word and discipline should get me through this 28 days and beyond.

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 Effective Structures.

Two initial points need to be made.

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.

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 Inspiring Worship Service.

Two initial points need to be made.

First, all the questions relate to the degree to which the worship service is inspiring. The higher a question’s result, the greater its contribution to the service being inspiring.

I am convinced that a fair percentage of male clergy treat the health of their church the same way as they treat their own health. The NCD process has made this link very apparent. I wrote the following allegory for an NCD National Conference back in 2004. Not surprisingly things haven’t much changed. Nor, as experience has taught me, have the issues been much different in places outside Australia. It goes like this. (The Australian male is known colloquially as the “Aussie bloke”.)

It’s common these days for words to end up attracting a meaning that is the opposite of what was originally intended. “Wicked” for some now means “fantastic” and something can be both “cool” and “hot” depending on the crowd you’re with. It might come as a surprise that the Church has been at this sort of thing for years.

Anglicans in many different parts of the world have engaged with Natural Church Development since it was launched in the mid to late 1990s. For some it has been for the purpose of growing their church, for others it has been about personal growth.

Temporary Suspension of Gravity!

Such news would be plastered across headlines of newspapers world wide. Regular broadcasting would be interrupted to capture the effect of such amazing news. The very principle of gravity, thought to be always and continuously applying, suddenly and inexplicably suspended. A story just waiting to be understood, relayed and interpreted by all and sundry.

I have signed up for the Scripture style, which is one of my stronger and have re-read the section on this style and finding my own position within it. Not so word driven in the sense of loving word studies but enjoying meditation with input from a more "blue" style of using my imagination.

Perhaps some of the following paraphrases expressed by pastors approaching NCD may resonate with you:

"I haven't thought about my expectations. NCD has some good ideas in it and I'm going to give it a go."