Category: Metrics & Goals
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4 Steps to Delegating Church Plant Responsibilities
The following is a guest post by my new friend in ministry, Deborah Ike. She is a writer, consultant, and project manager focused on using her experiences to help church leaders grow their churches with zero burnout. When you start on the journey to planting a church, you’re wearing several hats: Visionary Pastor Volunteer trainer […]
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Exponential East 2016 Main Session 3
This mini-series is a summary of my notes from the Exponential East 2016 Main Sessions. Tension of Measurement Speakers: J.D. Greear, Ajai Lall, Ralph Moore, Dave Furgerson Once you resolve the tension of motives, you will continually face the tension of measurement: Will you be only about growing your church or will you also be […]
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Micro vs Macro Church Metrics
What is your church’s scorecard? If you want to know how you’re doing at making disciples, you need to consider micro vs macro church metrics. For years churches have been measuring things at the macro (congregational) level. While that’s important and should be part of the scorecard, Willow’s now almost 10-year old Reveal study bravely […]
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3 Reasons to Create Ministry Reports
There has been a lot of healthy conversation around the ‘scorecard’ of the church recently. We mostly agree that measuring attendance and offerings is an incomplete scorecard at best. But why would you even want to create ministry reports that measure other things? Nobody becomes a church planter so that they can read or create […]