Every Tuesday Morning myself and our team look at the scoreboard. Most pastors look solely at the attendance and senior pastors tend to look at the offering. They are seeing their ministry from a limited perspective.
Our team measures each week - attendance, 1st time guests, 2nd time guests, membership prospects, small group sign-ups and participation, offering, new givers, baptism prospects, baptisms, new members, and people involved in ministry.
One of the great leadership books, Flow reads, "Flow is “the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.”
Rules provide boundaries. Practice builds skills. And scoring systems offer immediate feedback on your performance. If jobs were constructed like games, flow would be reached more often at work.
What do you measure in your ministry?
What do you measure in your ministry?
