A recent study of over 1,000 churches in thirty-two countries (Schwarz 2000, 23) discovered that there is a direct inverse correlation between denominational growth and educational expectations: the more education a denomination expects of its pastors and educators, the more that denomination evidences decline. More specifically, the research of the Natural Church Development (NCD) team found that only 42 per cent of pastors in high-quality, high-growth churches had