I found a post on a blog I read (Backyard Missionary) that you guys have to read. I’d like the content of my blog to stay close to the issue of redefining church success and mission in the postmodern environment. Part of what we need to do as leaders in the community is reconsider the metrics that we use to determine church health and growth.
This can hang up a lot of club-members as the church addresses the real needs of those outside of our club-meetings who may never consider coming to the clubhouse or paying club dues. I highly recommend this post, and I’d love to hear what kind of metric reflects your personal missional engagement.
BTW - We served 15 hot dogs, 8 smoked sausages, 8 hamburgers, and 4 lbs. of sweedish “meet”balls last Monday night. Angela and I have decided to keep track of that weekly over the summer. We didn’t get a head count. Oh well. I was also offered 2 shots at an end of the school year party that our neighbors threw for the neighborhood kids and parents. That was a painful, take one for the King experience. There are some metrics for ya.
Read this guys list of metrics here and tell me what you think.
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1 dansjourney // Jun 13, 2008 at 7:59 am
That was a great article. I like the list a lot. Metrics is something that I have been thinking a bit about in the campus ministry construct for the last four or five years. I don’t think ours work. Anyway, it’s been interesting wrestling over it and the funny thing is that what I have come down to is that it’s all subjective.
The metrics to me don’t matter, the goal, is what matters. Are the people around me where I am incarnating the risen Christ moving toward him? If so, success. If not, then I am not living an incarnational life. I don’t know. That’s what’s rambling around right now.