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How do you evaluate "success" in your ministry?
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Tim Avery   (Registered User)Posted: October 30, 2009
I prefer the term "faithfulness" over the word "success." We can strive to be faithful to what God has called us to do, but He controls the results. So we must return to the first principles of our ministry. Ask: 1) Is this what God has called us to? 2) Are we living that out? Of course there is a tension, because results can sometimes reflect how faithful or unfaithful we are in our ministry. But they don't prove it, one way or another. At the most, results should only push us to reconsider our first principles and whether we are actually following them. "So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth" (1 Cor. 3:7).


James Camacho   (Guest) Posted: June 16, 2008
Success in ministry is always derived from purpose. If the purpose of the church is for the equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry, the work of the ministry being the Great Commission, then our success must be measured by our effectiveness in this regard. The local church is God's agent on earth for equipping and sending believers to the world. How well are we equipping the believers of the church? Are they well cared for, given plenty of opportunity for growth, given training, guidance? How well are they applying and utilizing what they have been given? And ultimately, how well are they using their "equipping" for the furtherance of the Gospel among the people we are here to reach? If the believers of the church are not equipped (in every way) to reach out with the Gospel, we've got to ask serious questions about our effectiveness and success.


  (Registered User)Posted: June 09, 2008
My husband and I have been in minstry for a while now.... almost 20 years (said under breath) we measure our success in two ways - one is there actual growth in the people whom we are minstering to: basic changes in character that maybe were not there before and second when moving on; are we leaving things better than when we came -- we just resigned after being on staff for 8 years and if thing dont succeed once we left well we didnt do a good job training our leaders.


jonas kouassi zessia   (Guest) Posted: June 08, 2008
topic very important for the health of a church


Steve   (Guest) Posted: June 05, 2008
I think we need to completely rethink how we define success in ministry. It should be based on what God has asked us to do. Most of the goals or bench marks we use or look for in today's church (attendance or membership, size of buildings/plant, money received) has very little to do with what God has asked us to do. If we used today's standards, Jesus would have received a failing grade on all three of the above. After His John 6 discourse, many of his followers deserted him; He had "no place to lay his head", etc. Obviously, he had a different type of ministry than we do. He sought to die for the sins of the world. But he still has commanded us to go and make disciples, baptizing them and teaching them to obey all things he has commanded (Matt. 28). I believe that is what needs to be the picture of success. I am frustrated. I have lived so long in the previous system; I find it very difficult to come up with a way to quantify the later. Any help would be appreciated.

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