{"product_id":"natural-church-development-a-guide-to-eight-essential-qualities-of-healthy-churches","title":"Natural Church Development: A Guide to Eight Essential Qualities of Healthy Churches","description":"Critics of the church growth movement have often emphasized the need for quality congregations. We should not focus on numerical growth, but rather, we should concentrate on qualitative growth.\n\nChristian Schwarz has done extensive research world-wide and found that healthy, growing churches seem to share eight quality characteristics. These characteristics are:\n\nEmpowering leadership\nGift-oriented ministry\nPassionate spirituality\nFunctional structures\nInspiring worship service\nHolistic small groups\nNeed-oriented evangelism\nLoving relationships\nSchwarz uses the illustration of a barrel with eight staves to symbolize the eight quality characteristics. The barrel can only hold water to the height of the lowest stave. So too, Schwarz argues, a church can only grow as far as their 'Minimum factor,' which is the lowest of the eight quality characteristics in their church. He challenges churches to resist the temptation to work on improving areas in which they already excel, for by doing this they do not increase their minimum factor or their church quality.\n\nThis revised version of Natural Church Development now includes Schwarz's \"3 Colors\" teaching.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1889638005\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: LFV.1889638005.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Christian A. Schwarz|Robert E. Logan\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book is in very good condition.  Clean with little to no signs of wear or markings highlights.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Books for Life","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46319465201861,"sku":"LFV.1889638005.VG","price":6.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/2914\/4773\/files\/1889638005-0.jpg?v=1780766593","url":"https:\/\/www.booksforlife.store\/products\/natural-church-development-a-guide-to-eight-essential-qualities-of-healthy-churches","provider":"Books for Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}