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Which scoreboard are you using to measure your ministry success?
We want our lives and ministries to serve God well. As a pastor, your mind is full of tasks, goals, and concerns that need attention. It’s easy to lose sight of why you are leading a church and forget the core values, actions, and attitudes that make your church successful.
We want our lives and ministries to serve God well. As a pastor, your mind is full of tasks, goals, and concerns that need attention. It’s easy to lose sight of why you are leading a church and forget the core values, actions, and attitudes that make your church successful.
You need a way to cut through the clutter of information and busyness so you can evaluate both yourself and your church. Not all data is critical, so how do you know which information belongs on your pastoral “scoreboard”? Measuring what truly matters will refocus you on the mission Jesus gave the church.
Why this course?
This course will help you identify your effectiveness and health as a leader. You will develop skills for evaluating the most important elements of your ministry. Through this course, Dave will offer encouragement that you, and your church, can make an eternal difference in your community.
Your Leadership
Are you a healthy, effective leader? The simple but essential tools included in this course will help you monitor your health as you seek to lead others.
Your Church’s Goals
Learn how to cultivate a spiritually maturing church body. Discover ways to measure the effectiveness of your discipleship methods.
Your Community Impact
The church isn’t meant to stay inside its walls. Learn two critical elements to making a tangible difference in your community.
At the end of this course, you will...
Know how to evaluate your health, and the health of your church and your leaders.
Understand the two key components of how your church can impact your community.
Be equipped to maximize your church’s potential for God’s kingdom.
Included in this course:
Five 12-minute teaching videos
from Dave Ferguson
Discussion questions
to lead team conversations or reflect on your own.
15 practical exercises
to apply the principles in your church.
Additional resources
to help you keep learning between sessions.
Are we measuring our progress in the things that actually reflect our mission? Dave says we need a scoreboard. He explains why keeping track of the right information will help churches achieve their overall goal of spreading the gospel and making disciples.
Dave discusses the one characteristic that matters for leaders. Then he offers us a framework that includes four areas that impact our ability to be healthy disciple-makers. When these areas are healthy, we can flourish as leaders.
If our goal is to minister effectively, we must learn to measure how well our methods are working. Dave explains that when we measure what’s actually important in church, our mission of multiplication can move beyond our walls into our communities and out to the world.
To effect real change, we must look outward to the community we serve, take the pulse of its needs, and harness the collective power of the churches that serve nearby. Dave argues the more we collaborate, the more effective our efforts will be to transform our cities.
Dave reviews the importance of knowing what truly matters in our ministries. We can track and measure many bits of information, but the ones that will help us most are those that measure our faithfulness to God’s call.
Dave Ferguson
Dave Ferguson is lead pastor of Community Christian Church, a body with thirteen campuses in the Chicago area. He is also the president of Exponential, a community of leaders and a nationwide conference dedicated to accelerating church multiplication, and author of multiple books including BLESS: 5 Everyday Ways to Love Your Neighbor and Change the World.
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You can use this course on your own or with other leaders at your church. The written curriculum is geared toward group discussion, but it can also be used individually.
Dave Ferguson, author, pastor, and president of Exponential, explains how identifying and measuring the most important elements of ministry will lead to flourishing in three key areas of ministry.
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Plan for an hour to an hour and a half to go through each session, especially if you’re going through the content in a group. The videos in this course range from 11 to 15 minutes, and the discussion questions and activities will likely take up the rest of your meeting time.
This course is five sessions long. Feel free to cover the sessions in increments that make the most sense for you and your leadership team. For some, it might work best to go through one session a week, for others, it might be better to cover one session a month. We do not recommend doubling up on sessions.
In its 40-year history, Barna Group has conducted more than two million interviews over the course of thousands of studies and has become a go-to source for insights about faith and culture, leadership and vocation, and generations. Barna Group has worked with thousands of businesses, nonprofit organizations and churches across the U.S. and around the world.
Barna is an independent, privately held, nonpartisan organization based in Dallas, Texas, with offices in Nashville, Tennessee; Ventura, California; and Atlanta, Georgia.
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