Spiritual growth measuring stick
Some of my recent thoughts on measuring growth:
“We need new ways of measuring church success. In a large church, Sunday morning attendance indicates an ability to attract people. We give them excellent music and dynamic preaching. And Christians come. Then, when we measure our effectiveness we ask, ‘are people coming to church?’
We rarely ask, ‘are those churchgoers apprenticing to be like Jesus?’ Why not? Because we don’t know. We have very few, if any, ways of measuring whether or not a person is learning to be like Jesus.”
We need a new spiritual growth ruler.
