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A book that rewrote the rules of church development once and for all. When the first edition was published in 1996, it didn't only spark an intense international discussion, but also initiated processes of change in countless churches around the globe. Meanwhile, the fruit can be studied in more than 70,000 churches worldwide. The book has been published in 36 language versions. These are pre-2006 gently used editions. All the original content at a great price!
Your 3 main benefits:
1. Learn from the most comprehensive church growth research ever done
2. Develop the ability to separate fact from fiction
3. Apply the principles of healthy churches to your own situation
The All By Itself Pathway invites you into a 90-minute encounter with Christian A. Schwarz, the founder and head of the Institute for Natural Church Development (NCD). Christian will reduce the discoveries of two decades of research in tens of thousands of churches to a handful of personal action steps. While countless churches have implemented individual aspects of Natural Church Development, the majority have yet to discover the strategic key that Christian calls the All By Itself Pathway—consistently living in line with the unique gifts, energies, and resources that God has already granted you and your church.
The All By Itself Pathway is available in a growing number of denominational versions (presently Anglican, Adventist, and Salvation Army), reflecting experiences with Natural Church Development within the respective denominations and demonstrating how NCD contributes to renewing churches by leading them back to their own spiritual roots.
The book addresses three basic questions:
1. How can your church grow in quality and quantity regardless of unfavorable trends in society?
2. How can you have the greatest impact on your church regardless of your level of responsibility?
3. How can you maximize your fruitfulness in all areas of life regardless of your present starting point?
New research from churches in eighty-six countries around the world reveals that, throughout the last few years, there have been dramatic shifts in Christianity. In this book, Christian A. Schwarz not only presents these findings for the first time, but also pleads for twelve practical reforms that could unshackle the relevancy of the Christian faith, restoring it as a fascinating, transformative pursuit for people in our time.
It is the surprising thesis of this book that most keys to the relevance of Christianity are to be found in biblical insights that many non-Christians are longing for, while wide parts of Christianity have not yet discovered them.
The book is a call for change. It shows how the shifts in this epoch of history have the power to anchor and expand our spirituality and service to others.
Your three main benefits:
1. Understand the background of the relevance crisis of Christianity
2. Learn 12 practical responses that will dramatically increase the relevance of your church
3. Apply new ways of interaction between Christians and non-Christians
Color Your World with Natural Church Development
By Christian A. Schwarz
Learn how churches can assess their health and ability to become healthier. Chart a personal growth path in the light of the eight quality characteristics. Understand the Trinitarian Compass and color balance, the organic growth forces, the 8 characteristics of quality that different healthy growing churches from those in decline or stagnated, the NCD Survey tool and processes.
Get started on the NCD journey – individually, or as a congregation. Color balance is at the heart of spiritual growth!
Seven features that healthy communities around the globe have in common. The tool helps each reader identify his or her personal key to spiritual power. Investing the identified energies into community results in groups that become highly relevant for their members. By radically defining a small group in terms of their present membership and the identified energies, this book has opened a much needed new chapter in the worldwide discussion on small groups.
Your 3 main benefits:
1. Take an altogether new look at small groups
2. Unlock the secret of spiritual anointing
3. Identify your area of greatest potential
Twelve keys to empowering leadership—startling results from many years of research in more than 60,000 churches around the globe. This groundbreaking tool has been developed for anyone who has influence on the lives of others, whether these are three, twelve, fifty, or even thousands of people. Because of this concept, it applies to more than 80% of all active Christians and helps them grow in crucial areas of their lives. After the publication of this book, much of what has been written on leadership in the past needs to be revised.
Your 3 main benefits:
1. Discover previously unknown leadership secrets
2. Identify the factors that block your influence
3. Learn how to initiate viral processes of empowerment
Inspiring exercises that help individual believers, Christian groups and whole churches grow in the art of love. You will discover which of the “Fruits of the Spirit”‚ mentioned in Galatians 5 should become your focal point in order to grow: patience, joy, peace, faithfulness, goodness, kindness, self-control, or gentleness. What is more, you will find practical suggestions on what can immediately be done in order to improve in your personal growth area. The popular Fruit-of-the-Spirit Test is included in the book.
Your 3 main benefits:
1. Discover biblical teaching on love that will surprise you
2. Identify the factors that impede the work of the Holy Spirit
3. Transform your church into an oasis of love
This groundbreaking book will help you identify which of 9 spiritual styles is your “spiritual mother tongue”: the sensory, rational, doctrinal, Scripture-driven, sharing, ascetic, enthusiastic, mystical, or sacramental style. Discovering one‘s spiritual style is key to developing an authentic relationship to God that releases genuine spiritual passion. It is the way in which each of us relates most naturally to God. As a second step, the author demonstrates how the interaction with the very styles that presently may appear strange to us, leads us directly to spiritual maturity. The popular Spiritual Style Test is included in the book.
Your 3 main benefits:
1. Discover your personal “antenna to God”
2. Learn how to constructively interact with people of other spiritualities
3. Increase the level of spiritual passion in your whole church
Using this tool, more than half a million people have discovered their spiritual gifts. Apart from the Three-Color Gift Test, which has become standard for gift discovery worldwide, the book includes a second popular assessment tool: The "Change Compass" shows every believer which of 6 biblical figures comes closest to their own spiritual starting point: Thomas, Martha, Mary, Moses, Peter, or Jonah. Integrating the process of gift discovery into the “three-color paradigm” of NCD, it is guaranteed that the use of spiritual gifts will result in personal growth of the members and an increase in the spiritual balance of the church.
Your 3 main benefits:
1. Unlock the potential in yourself and others
2. Maximize your fruitfulness
3. Build gift-based ministry in your church
This handbook assists church leaders in the implementation of gift-based ministry, as described in the international bestseller, The 3 Colors of Ministry. A must for every church that wants to take the gift-based approach seriously as a long-term strategy, rather than restrict the activities to mere gift discovery.
Your 3 main benefits:
1. Help every church member discover his or her spiritual gift
2. Ensure that all gifts are related to concrete tasks
3. Establish gift-based ministry as a long-term strategy
This handbook assists people who want to come alongside other believers on a one-on-one basis in order to help them discover their gifts and relate them to corresponding tasks. Based on the international bestseller, The 3 Colors of Ministry, it provides all the tools needed to establish a multiplying network of gift counselors in your church.
Your 3 main benefits:
1. Help people relate their gifts to concrete tasks
2. Recruit, train, and support gift counselors
3. Establish gift-based ministry in the structures of your church
This handbook enables any small group leader to guide a group through the life-transforming process of discovering their spiritual gifts. On the basis of the international bestseller, The 3 Colors of Ministry, it shows how to practically experience what the New Testament calls the “Body of Christ.” The Group Leader's Guide provides suggestions for a series of one, three, six, or twelve small group sessions. Its concepts can be related to virtually any form of group, be it a cell group, a Bible Study group, a prayer team, a choir, or a committee.
Your 3 main benefits:
1. Energize your small group members with the help of the Gift Test
2. Learn to appreciate the differences in giftedness
3. Make your group relevant and meaningful and for each participant
NOW! empowers you to deal with the challenges of everyday life transformation. The author’s invitation: “Devote eight hours of your time—four for receiving and four for sharing—to develop inner resources that will power up your ministry effectiveness for the rest of your life. You will be enabled to approach any challenge (be it at your job, in your family, at your church, etc.) in such a way that the transforming power of God will be released.”
The three main topics of the book:
1. How to be an energy transformer
2. How to be a multiplier
3. The secret of ongoing growth
An in-depth study on the theological paradigm behind Natural Church Development. At many universities and seminaries around the globe, “Paradigm Shift in the Church” has become the basic textbook for church development. In this book, the author links the discussion between church development and systematic theology in an unprecedented way. He outlines amazing new perspectives that arise at the moment we don't limit ourselves to mere pragmatism, but follow a sound theological compass. The book introduces a paradigm that differs from a foggy ecumenicism on the one hand, and from denominational parochialism, on the other.
Your 3 main benefits:
1. Discover the theological paradigm behind NCD
2. Identify the deepest roots of all obstacles to church development
3. Apply a theology that meets the challenges of the third millennium
Possibly the shortest book that has ever been written on the Trinity, and at the same time the one with the most dramatic impact on the way we lead our lives. In only 32 pages the author demonstrates the practical consequences that arise from not only "believing” in the Trinity, but actually “experiencing” divine reality in the area of each of God‘s three major revelations. A comprehensive introduction to the Trinitarian Compass, that has become the heart of all books on Natural Church Development.
Your 3 main benefits:
1. Use NCD to help people move to the core of the Christian faith
2. Present the most complex theme in theology in an easy-to-grasp way
3. Help antagonistic streams in your church to fruitfully co-operate
Around the globe, thousands of churches have experienced the power of the “six growth forces” that are taught by Natural Church Development: interdependence, multiplication, energy transformation, sustainability, symbiosis, and fruitfulness. While some people are inclined to regard these principles as a rather abstract theory, this book proves the very opposite: Each of the 80 insightful stories that the author has collected around the world demonstrates how the growth forces have worked—and how they could work in your context as well.
Your 3 main benefits:
1. Learn from the experiences of church leaders around the globe
2. Work smarter rather than harder, to achieve more in less time
3. Experience the power of all-by-itself growth in all areas of your life
How could it be that the New Testament teaching on God’s energy has remained all but invisible to vast parts of Christianity? What new spiritual and theological possibilities emerge when people embrace this dimension and allow it to shape their daily lives? In this first volume of his Energy Trilogy, Christian A. Schwarz unpacks the New Testament concept of energy, explains its explosive implications for today, and explores factors that made Western Christianity first ignore and then suppress it.
Your three main benefits:
1. Discover the New Testament concept on God’s energy
2. Understand the rejection mechanisms in the West
3. Explore the implications of God’s energy for various topics of theology, spirituality, and church development
The teaching on God’s energy, as portrayed in the New Testament, has far-reaching consequences for both our view of God and our relationship to God. Can we encounter God as a person, while at the same time being permeated by God’s transpersonal (more than a person) dimension? In the second volume of his Energy Trilogy, Christian A. Schwarz explores how the biblical energy paradigm considerably enhances both Christian theology and spirituality, and enables surprising new ways of experiencing the transcendence of God in the midst of our daily lives.
Your three main benefits:
1. Expand your image of God
2. View the supernatural from a new perspective
3. Explore new ways of relating faith and science to one another
In the third volume of his highly-acclaimed Energy Trilogy, Christian A. Schwarz presents cutting-edge research that reveals a dramatic shift in Christian involvement in churches around the world. Many of the approaches that were celebrated as recipes for success until just a few years ago no longer work. What needs to change in churches to address the landslide shifts? What needs to happen in the heads, hands and hearts of Christians to get closer to this goal? And how can this be done in practical terms? Drawing on the biblical teaching about God's energy, Schwarz presents compelling concepts that enable individuals and groups to contribute to processes of transformation. The book can help the church recalibrate its spiritual and theological compass to get prepared for facing today's challenges.
Your three main benefits:
1. Explore the basic theological, philosophical, and psychological background of the landslide changes
2. Unlock intrinsic motivation in self and others
3. Experience the life-changing impact of the biblical energy paradigm
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