If your church is seriously considering or preparing for an NCD survey, the little booklet, The ABC's of Natural Church Development is an easy 20-minute orientation for those who don't care to read the full Natural Church Development book.

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ABCs of Natural Church Development
by Christian A. Schwarz
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This booklet is designed to introduce a congregation or any interested persons to Natural Church Development in just 20 minutes... more

Natural Church Development Starter Package
$375

The Natural Church Development survey is a tool for assessing the health of the church in eight areas that, based on what is probably the largest global study of church health ever conducted, were demonstrated to have a strong correlation to church growth. Identifying your church's strengths and weaknesses guides you in answering the question, "How can we use our strengths to address our weaknesses?"... more

Implementation Guide to Natural Church Development
by Christian A. Schwarz
$14.95  U.S.

Once you receive your NCD survey results, what do you do with them? This Implementation Guide includes checklists and action steps for your Implementation Team (we call this your Church Health Team) to consider. One copy of this book is included with your NCD survey. You may wish to buy additional copies for the members of your Church Health Team.

Paradigm Shift in the Church
by Christian A. Schwarz
$20.00  U.S.

This book presents the theological paradigm that is the foundation of the practical tools and concepts behind Natural Church development. Natural Church Development is not just one church growth method among many, it is a different theological paradigm altogether.

In the Introduction to this book Schwarz says, 'Every reformation movement is confronted with an opposing force known as 'orthodoxy'. This was true in the days of the 16th century Reformation (when the opponent was Roman Catholic orthodoxy); it was true in the days of the Pietistic revival in Europe (which was opposed by orthodox Protestants); and the same seems to apply to the different movements that fight for a reformation of their churches today.'

Christian Schwarz is convinced that we will make no significant progress in our churches without changes as radical as those of the Reformation.

Organizational Diagnosis of Churches
by Christian A. Schwarz
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This paper describes the theoretical background and the statistical development of the Natural Church Development Survey and its relation to organizational psychology. The 2.5 mg zip file contains a self-extracting exe file which requires a password to be unzipped. To obtain the password, send an email to the Institute for Natural Church Development at ncd-report@gmx.net. Please include your name and country in the body of the email. You will receive a response within one minute. The original download site of this file is http://www.CundP.de/download/ncd.zip.

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