Learn how to evaluate your church to remove barriers to growth. Read this digest to get a working education in church evaluation.
How Healthy is your Church? These 18 Numbers will Tell You
Whether you’ve thought it or not, your church has an evaluation system. Every service is evaluated by every attendee.
If it’s really good, others hear about it. If it’s really bad, even more “others” hear about it.
We can’t help ourselves; we are made in the image of a God who has evaluated everything he’s ever made.
There are two ways to measure the health of an organization. One is by quality; the other, by quantity. Healthy churches measure both ways.
23 Questions that Will Help your Church Get Better
When you visit a doctor, he determines your health by two methods. First, he collects the numbers. Then, he asks you the questions.
The first step is quantitative. These 18 important numerical measures for your church give you the numbers side of evaluating your church’s health.
The second measure is qualitative. Qualitative insight comes from asking questions. Dig in by asking questions about these five areas of your church.
How to Use Board and Staff Retreats to Accelerate Evaluation and Growth
Do you know how to use Board and staff retreats to accelerate evaluation and growth?
Doctors know that the best way to evaluate a patient is to look at his vital signs and to ask him questions. The vital signs quantify health; the questions clarify health.
For pastors, there is a third element to the evaluation process that can help accelerate your church’s learning and growth.
9 Questions Every Pastor Should Ask
Pastor, when someone asks, “How are things going at the church?” you almost always answer, “Good!” “Fine.” Or “Great!”
But how do you know? How do you actually gauge how things are going?
Here are nine questions to ask yourself regularly that will help you know how it’s really going, and how to make it go better.
Use a Better Standard to Measure Church Success
I don’t know where we got the idea that church success should be measured in nickels and noses (or attendance and dollars).
I affirm that large numbers in church are better than small and more money for ministry is better than less. But if Jesus’ goal is to build his church, I believe there are better questions than, “How many were here last week? And How much did they give?”
Here are a few suggestions for better ways to measure great ministry.
Church Evaluation Master Class
You may wonder if it’s necessary to evaluate your church. Trust me, everyone else is evaluating your church every weekend.
Do you want to see what they’re thinking so you can fix it?
This church evaluation master class will teach you straightforward questions to measure and assess.
Then lead a church that evaluates and grows.
Hal Seed is the founding and Lead Pastor of New Song Community Church in Oceanside, CA. He mentors pastors who want to lead healthy, growing churches with resources at www.pastormentor.com.
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