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Evaluation is what begins church growth

By: Jason Evans


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In a lot of ways the health of the church is where you start your church increase. As it is a widely known actuality that only a healthy thing can grow, so in order to grow a church must take worry of it’s members. The church ought be aware as well of how strong it is in the community

The first step toward church increase is evaluation. It includes self analysis and knowing where the church actually stands in the community. It also includes asking what are its negative and positive points. The task of evaluation becomes more difficult when the church does not want to come out of its own self image and does not want to step into the reality of the truthful way it is seen. It may too be the case that the perception which the church holds about itself at present may have been the reality of the past but is no longer true.

The evaluation must include the actual and exact knowledge of what the community sees the church as in terms of its services and the reputation. Take great concern that you do not end up in a numbers game with your evaluation. They don’t look much deeper to find out the hidden realities, but instead just decide the church’s image must be great on the basis of the number of the footfalls that a church gets on an average over a period of time.

Here, in this step, the clergy or who so ever is conducting the evaluation survey must talk to its attendees and get to know their point of view of the church in terms of cleanliness, its services and other things. Here, along with the evaluation, the church will as well get to know if the teachings the church is undertaking to give are being received by the individuals or if the message is getting lost along the way.

Similarly, the church clergy or the staff will also get to know whether the services they are providing are up to the mark or if it needs to be upgraded to match the way of the current times. As well, whether some new and crucial service requires to be introduced into the church and how effective the current services are to the individuals of the church already.

As well, during the process, it is important for the church to know what role that their church is playing as the leader of the society and what kind of relationships it enjoys with the individuals of the community. Normally in order to hook all the people of the community, a church keeps on organizing some kind of events or other functions, but even as successful as these events may have seemed, they can only be known for sure through the evaluation process.

Keep in mind that not all of the community feels the same way about the church. It can too be the case that a church is popular among a specific segment and the other segment does not even know about it. Hence, it has to work in an entirely new area and interact with all the other segments for the evaluation to be more accurate.

At last, the evaluation is not a onetime process, but it has to be done again and again over a period of time to know the actual status of the church as it will always keep on changing with the time. And accordingly, the church has to plan for the growth ideas and implement them, so that it will keep on growing and not be stagnant.

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