Cycle Starter Plans

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Having understood your church a little better with the help of the NCD Church Survey, its now time to start cycling together towards a healthier church. You’ve chosen to start experimenting and learning more about the topic to the left. Now, select one of the cycle starter plans below and write number 1 in its box. Put this sheet on your wall, then, go do it!

Next time you are meeting with others who are also working through a topic, ask each other the questions from the cycle, starting at “do” and finishing at “plan”. After a cycle you may decide the most important thing to do now is to keep going with the same plan, modify it, or choose another option from below. If choosing another from below, just write 2 in its box and so on.

If you’d like more cycle starter options, or to work on another topic highlighted by your NCD Church Survey results, just visit ncdchurchsurvey.org/cycle-starters

Q16

  • Ask several people in your church to tell you what they believe your gifts and skills are and how you can best use them to build up your church.
  • Help your leaders to find ways to acknowledge the work of the church's volunteers regularly.
  • Identify three people who make a valuable contribution to the life of your church and make a point of thanking them personally.
  • If you enjoy the sermons, take time to encourage the preacher with specific feedback on why.
  • If you see a spiritual gift being used by someone who doesn't appear to know they have it, talk to them about how you see God working through that gift.
  • Read Ephesians 3:20. Pray the general prayer to God that He will do something in your life which is more than you could ask or imagine so that you are renewed in your service to Him.
  • Take time before meetings this week (e.g. at meals with your family, a leadership or team meeting, a mentoring appointment, etc.) to think about a celebration point that relates to that individual or group as a whole and then share it with them.
  • Ask a leader in your church to tell you how they see your contribution fitting into the overall direction of church life.