numbers and stories aren’t the best measure of why we do what we do

We are all tempted to play a bit of a numbers game when it comes to our ministry work. This is especially true in churches

The only failure is unfaithfulness

Ask the question, ‘who wants to fail?’ and you have a fairly sure thing that no hands will be going up in the room. Nobody

How do we judge ministry success?

Yesterday, I wrote about why numbers & responses are not the measure of ministry success. If we are primarily judging ministry success by numbers, many of

Why numbers & responses are not the measure of ministry success

We are so prone to measuring ministry success by numbers. We are desperate for tangible proof that our efforts are worthwhile and it’s surely no

The myth of self-made men and self-made churches

I am not a self-made man. Indeed, you are not either. Nobody is self-made. Che Guevara was right when he said: The myth of the