Love. It is one of the most central words of Christian theology, and yet one of the foggiest words on planet earth. Many Christians who use this term communicate a clearly secular understanding rather than a fully biblical concept. Sometimes it almost seems that as Christians we haven't even really begun to grasp the full scope of the biblical concept of love, let alone put it into practice. But what is the biblical understanding of love? When you choose to grow in love, you are not dealing with a weekend hobby that may be of interest to you, but others can safely ignore. You are dealing with the heart of the Christian faith. At the same time you are dealing with the heart of church development. The motive of church development is love, the message is love, and it is empirically demonstrable that there is no better church growth method than love. This book focuses on the three fundamental dimensions of God's love that every believer can reflect in his or her life: justice, truth and grace. Depending on your starting point, your personal growth path may be very different to someone else's. The 3 Colors of Love offers practical tools to help you identify your starting point and experience the revolutionary power of God's unconventional love in your life.

The 3 Colors of Love (NCD Discipleship Resources)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian SChwarz

Christian Books & Bibles

ChurchSmart Resources

With Natural Church Development, Christian Schwarz introduced a fascinating approach to church growth that really works and has been accepted all over the world. Now he shows how the biblically-based principles of Natural Church Development can also be a blessing for the spiritual development of the individual believer. Color Your World with NCD is a powerful, graphically written book for people who seek to live out their faith with balance and passion and thereby impact their church health. What is the church? The church is people. What determines the health of a church? The health of the heads, hands and hearts of those people. How can we enhance the health of a church? By enhancing the health in our heads, hands and hearts. Let the Trinitarian Compass guide you to all that God has in store for you Chart your personal growth path in light of the eight quality characteristics Discover how Natural Church Development helps you and your church mature Discover what Natural Church Development is all about: drawing people closer to the triune God and, as a natural side effect, seeing numerical growth within the church as a whole.

Color Your World with Natural Church Development

Why are so many people leaving their churches? Too often, people do not feel like they are spiritually connecting with God. They look to their church for help, but end up feeling like it is nothing but a series of empty exercises with little or no meaning. The author argues that too many churches do not encourage congregants to discover their spiritual style that is, how do they best relate to God. To explore this topic further, Schwarz sought out mentors from various spiritual traditions to learn how different people seek and experience God. As a result, he has identified nine different styles: 1. Sensory Enjoying the works of God 2. Rational Understanding the nature of God 3. Doctrinal Thinking correctly about God 4. Scripture-driven Applying the Word of God 5. Sharing Passing on the grace of God 6. Ascetic Developing discipline for God 7. Enthusiastic Celebrating the power of God 8. Mystical Resting in the presence of God 9. Sacramental Expressing the incarnation of God This book includes a self-test to help participants identify their spiritual style. The first step to increasing one s spiritual passion is simply identifying your style and cultivating it. Step two is to venture outside of your comfort zone and try to experience God in one of the other styles. Some will be closely related to your native style (and therefore easy to experience), others will be out of your comfort zone. While you may never be totally comfortable in the opposite spiritual style, you may find your appreciation growing for those who do find God in that style.

The 3 Colors of Your Spirituality

This book presents an exciting new way of looking at leadership. Whether you are an established leader in a high-profile position or an emerging leader who is still unsure whether God wants you to take over more leadership responsibility, the training described in this book will empower you in such a way that you will be able to empower others. Based on world-wide research among tens of thousands of leaders, this book portrays six fundamental leadership principles that anyone can learn: Vision, Experimentation, Capacity, Strategy, Training and Progression A state-of-the-art online test (which every book owner can take for free) will help you develop your personalized training plan.

The 3 Colors of Leadership

This book presents an altogether new way of approaching small groups. Rather than being preoccupied with the technical aspects of small group ministry, this book focuses on the qualities that are fundamental for any sort of Christian community, be it a family, a prayer meeting, a Bible study group, a task force, or a choir. Based on comprehensive research, this book portrays seven qualities that all healthy communities have in common. Applying these principles not only generates enthusiastic responses from the participants, but also sustainable effects in their lives. A self-assessment measuring the seven communal qualities for individuals is in each book.

The 3 Colors of Community

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The All By Itself Pathway invites you into a 90 minute encounter with Christian Schwarz, the founder and head of the Institute for Natural Church Development (NCD). Schwarz 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 Schwarz 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

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Backcountry Press

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