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Creating Passionate Users: “Success” should not mean “Management”

This article from CPU prompted a series of thoughts in my head that I just couldn’t stop. The premise is that we measure success wrongly in business by equating management and the proper flow of responisibility with success, when we ought to see success as the intersection of what happens and what we want to achieve.

This is an old argument for the church. Many people belabor the idea that the church uses bricks, bodies and bucks to measure success, and I’m not really thinking of that. What I am thinking of is much different than that. Surely the three B’s aren’t e very good measure of church success. There are just too many “churches” out there that have all three but don’t function as the Body of Christ.

My Measurement
If we look at churches and see that different churches do different things well, then they all can’t be held to the same measure. My goals are mostly centered on making disciples that continue in their faith long after I am around. The way I do that has been different in every place I have served.

My measurement comes from several sources. How many of my disciples are still going to church? How many serve in a church? How many are still struggling with their faith (this is a good thing IMO)?

I think churches need to get over the three B’s and start some new measurements that actually reflect success and communicate those successes to the body.