The last point of being effective in ministry is found in an exercise that many are doing just this day. Being a Monday Morning Quarterback. You know what we do, we evaluate what's effective and what's not effective. What worked in the game and what didn't work.
What was the one thing that prevented the Cardinals from winning? Perusing over the news outlets and talking heads, and recalling the game in my own mind, the answer was not just one thing, but many. Penalties, a not-so-together defense when it mattered early on, a last minute touchdown by Santonio Homes made all the Cardinal's effort to get to that point seem like a moot point.
In churches, evaluation is important. Allowing time for evaluation is also important. Whether it's in the game or afterwards, you adjust and make the goal possible by evaluation.
In our student ministry, I ask our team at our meetings after our main Wednesday night program, what their perspective was on all the different aspects of the night. We dissect it. We take the great things out of the night, and the things that perhaps need adjustment. Our pastor does this with our church as well. But we can't do it if we don't do it. Make sense? In order to be effective, you have to work on it. You have to "effect" what you want to be effective at.
Nobody's going to "get" church exactly right. We're broken. But we can evaluate how effective we are in ministry, and seek to have the greatest impact by doing so.
1 comments:
Evaluation is key...implementation is more of a key. Knowing where God wants you to go and being obedient to it are often worlds apart when it comes to evaluating where a ministry stands. I like that we talk about what worked and didn't work in YG--helps to streamline the ministry on a dime.
Exercises of faith as well as evaluation are required in matters of growth! Good post!
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