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

Q12

  • Analyze how much of what you sing in church actually focuses your attention on God, teaching or reminding you about His nature and purposes.
  • Arrive early for the worship service ensuring you have time beforehand to relax and prepare yourself.
  • Create a survey for your congregation to discover the top 20 most inspiring worship songs, hymns or pieces of music. For a time during worship services, invite respondants to share why a piece of music inspires them and then feature it.
  • Find a way to get a modern translation of the Bible into the pews of your church.
  • In your small group, discuss the different ways people might experience God during the worship service.
  • Make eye contact and shake hands or greet someone from your church with whom you have had even the slightest relational tension and enquire how things are with them.
  • Take the 3colorsofyourspirituality.org Spiritual Style Test on your own or in a group.
  • Write down at least five occasions when you've experienced something from God during the worship service.