Natural Church Development

Survey

• Given to 20 to 30 identified leaders of the church 

  • Pastor(s)

  • Staff

  • Elected leaders

  • Unofficial

  • Teachers

  • Anyone the Implementation Team identifies as a leader

   

• Four pages of simples questions regarding

  • Opinions

  • Practices

   

• Identifies the congregation's current strengths and weakness within the Eight Essential Qualities:

  • Empowering Leadership

  • Gift-Oriented Ministry

  • Passionate Spirituality

  • Functional Structures

  • Inspiring Worship

  • Holistic Small Groups

  • Need-Oriented Evangelism

  • Loving Relationships

   

• Serves as snap-shot of the congregations current situation

• Provides an impetus for the leaders to come up with a self-created action plan to improve their situation

• Creates a chart

Most churches fall between 35 – 65 (blue area)

Mean = 50

Standard Deviation = 15

(See "Strategy" for more)

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