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Creating the
Environment for Growth
The 8 Essential Qualities
of Natural Church
Development
8 Essential Quality Characteristics
 Empowering
 Gift-based
 Passionate
 Effective
Inspiring
 Holistic
 Need-oriented
 Loving
Leadership
Ministry
Spirituality
Structures
Worship
Small Groups
Outreach
Relationships
Empowering Leadership
Empowering Leadership
Empowering Leadership
• Leaders train others for the ministry, rather
than just doing it themselves
• Not just the clergy, all leaders enable others.
• Mentoring, equipping, coaching
• On-the-job training
• Apprentice leaders developed
• Super
Gift-based Ministry
Gift-based Ministry
Gift-based Ministry
• Members are helped to
identify their gifts
• Gifts, passion and
personality matched to
ministries
• Joy and fulfilment in
serving
Passionate Spirituality
Passionate Spirituality
• Hunger for God
• Strong in Prayer
• Personal spiritual
disciplines
• Holiness, obedience
Passionate Spirituality
Almighty God,
you have made us for yourself,
and our hearts are restless till they find their
rest in you:
pour your love into our hearts and draw us
to yourself,
and so bring us at last to your heavenly city
where we shall see you face to face;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
CW Collect – 17th Sunday after Trinity
Effective Structures
Effective Structures
But I love our traditions!
Effective Structures
• All ministries have
goals
• Flexibility
• Willing to change
able to adapt
• Serve the ministries
Inspiring Worship
Inspiring Worship
Psalm 122:1
I was glad when they
said to me, “Let us go
to the house of the
Lord.”
Holistic Small Groups
Holistic Small Groups
Worship
Bible Study
Fellowship
Prayer
Service
Outreach
Holistic Small Groups
A group that is small!
Ministering to each other’s felt
needs: spiritual, emotional, physical,
social
Using spiritual gifts
Bible application
Multiply
Need-oriented Outreach
Need-oriented Outreach
Need-oriented Outreach
• Aware of the felt needs of the community
• Ministries meet felt needs
• Members able to effectively share their
faith
• Services accessible to visitors
• New believers assimilated
Loving Relationships
Loving Relationships
• Atmosphere of joy
and trust
• Forgiving and Fun
• Affirmation and
encouragement
• Prayer for one
another
8 Essential Qualities
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Empowering Leadership
Gift-based Ministry
Passionate Spirituality
Effective Structures
Inspiring Worship
Holistic Small Groups
Need-oriented Outreach
Loving Relationships