Strategic Christian

Happy New Year!

I’m about to start a series of informal surveys with church and mission leaders, asking,

• “How do you know what effect your ministry is having in people’s lives?”
• “How can you tell when or whether a certain ministry approach is more or less effective than another?”
• “What indicators do you use to recognize fruit from the work you do in ministry?”

This is not to say that every ministry should have equally obvious fruit. Hudson Taylor opened up inland China to missions, a work of incredibly historic significance, even though he saw no conversions in his first several years there. Ministry through the arts (or a blog) may be significant but distant from the people it touches. Nor does it mean that the answer should be the same from one ministry to another.

But it will still be interesting to know how this question is answered. What about you? How would you answer these questions for your ministry?

Posted by Tom Gilson under Church & Missions |