Are there metrics a leader can use to measure discipleship?
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Leadership Straight from Bill Hybels
Are there metrics a leader can use
to measure discipleship?
Is true discipleship measurable?
The best measurement we have
for it is the REVEAL survey.
We do the REVEAL survey
every few years
because we do believe
that you can get some indication
if your initiatives are having impact
and are moving people toward Christ-centeredness.
So, that is the best tool
we have found thus far.
We are starting this new initiative called,
The Practice.
We are going to learn a lot about that.
Then we will see if that as a discipleship
tool is helping our REVEAL scores.
We think facts are our friends.
When people say you cannot measure anything,
you can measure a lot of stuff.
When you can, facts are
generally your friends.
You look at them and say,
"I hate these facts.
So let's do some things that change
these facts and drive things differently."
We are very serious about discipleship.
We will measure it with REVEAL.
We are an endless quest.
Someone stopped me at a dinner and said, "We were here
6 years ago and learned many things.
And now Willow is so different 6 years later
and we are learning new things."
I said, "That is as it should be."
If you come here from 6 years from now
and I am still talking about the same things here...
We are incessant tinkerers.
We get up every day and say,
"What can we do better?
What did we learn yesterday that can
help us move the church ahead
to a more God-glorifying
degree tomorrow?"
We will let go of anything
that is past it's time.
And we will launch something that sounds as if
the Holy Spirit could use it in a wonderful way.
We will launch
and hopefully God will use it.