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!
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.
This site is an initiative of NCD International as part of its ongoing partnership with the C3 movement. For more than a decade, NCD International along with its National Partners in many countries, has endeavoured to support the inspiring work of C3 as it has worked at developing healthy, multiplying churches around the world. Many of these churches have made great progress in NCD health and you can read some of their stories on this site.
Natural Church Development is about discovering and doing the most important, practical things right now for the salvation of the world in and around your church. After a quick survey and the short time it takes to receive your results, you can get started straight away on the activities that will make the very best use of your available time, treasure and talent. The majority of C3 churches around the world have already experienced the fruit of the NCD process.
The following chart indicates the relationship between levels of NCD health and the likelihood that a church has planted another church in the previous 5 years. Clearly the relationship is strong. As with all correlative data, it is important not to suppose a cause effect relationship here between health and planting. All we can say is that there is very strong evidence that if you want to pursue church multiplication, you would be wise to seriously address church health.
Possibility Growth Projection
Last updated: May 2011
Number of countries in which the C3 Church has engaged with NCD: 4
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”.)
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.
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."
