Accountability needs to be built into the performance evaluation process for all staff. This one is for those churches wanting to create a culture of equipping or disciple making.  Try using this scoring system to evaluate your ministry and your staff’s ministry.

Rate each statement on a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 10 (strongly agree).

1. I spend most of my time identifying, recruiting, equipping, deploying, and coaching unpaid servants.

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2. I find it more satisfying to equip someone than to do the ministry myself.

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3. Even if the ministry won’t get done, I never consider doing any form of ministry myself.

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4. I regularly hold myself accountable for the number of unpaid servants I’m coaching.

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5. If I have to choose, I am content with a better-than-average ministry performed by unpaid servants, rather than an excellent ministry performed by paid staff.

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6. Our staff meetings spend most of the time examining the growth of the unpaid servants we are working with.

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7. Our church expects us to equip people for ministry rather than doing it ourselves.

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8. We regularly talk about servants rather than volunteers.

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9. Our church has a definite equipping process in place that reaches from the parking lot to the mission field.

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10. Our staff is paid based on how many servants they are raising up each year.

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11. We evaluate success based on the number of unpaid servants working in hands-on ministries other than committees.

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12. We have ministries ready for seeking non-Christians, day old Christians, maturing Christians, and spiritual giants.

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13. We model how we want equipping to take place rather than just teaching about equipping.

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14. Our unpaid servants understand that one of their roles no matter what ministry they are working in is to raise up their replacement.

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15. Many of our lead staff have been raised up in the church rather than coming to us by appointment or an outside source.

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16. We clearly have a system that places unproven servants to begin serving in easy, simple tasks, and based on their commitment and performance be rewarded with more important and complicated service.

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17. Our staff and Board have been trained in how to equip others for ministry.

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18. Our church hires paid staff based on their equipping ability.

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19. Our support staff exists to serve the ministry needs of our paid pastoral/program staff.

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Accountability needs to be built into the performance evaluation process for all staff.

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Question: How did you and your staff score? Based on your results, what have you done well? What might you need to improve on? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.