As a church leader, you want to see your congregation thrive—but how do you measure real spiritual impact? Beyond attendance and giving, true ministry success is about whole-life flourishing and church-wide health. This course equips you with a research-backed framework to assess your church’s strengths and areas for growth.
As a church leader, you want to see your congregation thrive—but how do you measure real spiritual impact? Beyond attendance and giving, true ministry success is about whole-life flourishing and church-wide health. This course equips you with a research-backed framework to assess your church’s strengths and areas for growth.
With practical tools and insights from Barna’s decades of research, you’ll gain clarity on what’s working, what needs attention, and how to lead with confidence. Stop guessing—discover how to measure what truly matters and guide your church toward lasting impact.
Many pastors feel the weight of leading their church without a clear way to measure true impact. This course provides a research-driven framework to move beyond assumptions and make informed, confident ministry decisions. By focusing on what truly matters—nurturing spiritual growth, leading your people well and growing a thriving faith community—you’ll gain the tools to strengthen your church for the long run.
It’s easy to track attendance and giving, but these numbers don’t tell the full story. This course introduces a proven framework that helps you assess church health across multiple dimensions (7 dimensions of human flourishing, 15 dimensions of church thriving), giving you a holistic view of your ministry’s impact.
Making strategic decisions doesn’t mean leaving faith behind. Learn how to combine data-driven insights with spiritual discernment, so you can lead your church with both wisdom and conviction.
This course doesn’t just provide ideas—it equips you with actionable tools to evaluate your church and take meaningful next steps. You’ll walk away with a plan to assess, adjust and activate lasting transformation in your congregation.
Nona Jones is a rare combination of preacher, business executive, author, and entrepreneur. She currently serves as Global Ambassador for YouVersion, publicly championing its family of 715M+ downloaded Bible Apps.
She and her husband, Pastor Tim, lead Open Door Church in Gainesville, FL and are the proud parents of two boys.
Nona Jones (preacher, business executive and author) leads this seven-session course from Barna Group, equipping church leaders with a research-based framework to measure true ministry impact beyond attendance and giving.
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 3 to 14 minutes, and the discussion questions and activities will likely take up the rest of your meeting time.
This course is 7 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.
This course is based on Barna Group’s research report The State of Your Church. We recommend reading the book as you go through the course, but it is not required.
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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