Cycle Starter Plans

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Having understood your church a little better with the help of the NCD Church Survey, its now time to start cycling together towards a healthier church. You’ve chosen to start experimenting and learning more about the topic to the left. Now, select one of the cycle starter plans below and write number 1 in its box. Put this sheet on your wall, then, go do it!

Next time you are meeting with others who are also working through a topic, ask each other the questions from the cycle, starting at “do” and finishing at “plan”. After a cycle you may decide the most important thing to do now is to keep going with the same plan, modify it, or choose another option from below. If choosing another from below, just write 2 in its box and so on.

If you’d like more cycle starter options, or to work on another topic highlighted by your NCD Church Survey results, just visit ncdchurchsurvey.org/cycle-starters

Reconciliation

  • Ask anyone you come across in your church or small group, who seems to have some longer-term tension with another person, to tell you one or more positive things about that person, then encourage them to communicate those to the other person in some way.
  • Consider the conflict resolution process presented by Jesus in Matthew 18:15-17 and how it could be implemented practically in conflict situations in your church.
  • Consider whether you are more inclined to compliment people for what they have done well or challenge them about the commitments they have not fulfilled.
  • If you have relationship difficulties with anyone in your church, find a neutral party to help you repair the relationship, and persist until it is.
  • Invite some people from your church that you don't know very well into your home or out somewhere for a meal.
  • Make eye contact and shake hands or greet someone from your church with whom you have had even the slightest relational tension and enquire how things are with them.
  • Speak out about the positives of a person or current situation when in any negative sounding discussions this week.
  • Take the 3colorsoflove.org Fruit of the Spirit Test on your own or in a group.