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If your church is less than 3 years old, use your average attendance approximately 3 months after launch.
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What is your annual operating budget?(Required)
What is your current staffing level in "full-time equivalents" (FTEs)?(Required)
In calculating FTEs, one full-time staff, two half-time staff or four quarter-time staff would all equal one full-time equivalent staff (i.e. 1 FTE).
Compared with the previous year (ending 12 months ago), your total offerings during the last 12 months were:(Required)
Approximately what % higher?(Required)
Approximately what % lower?(Required)
How does your current paid staffing level in FTE compare to one year ago? NOTE: If you have no paid staff, then use unpaid core leaders for this question instead.(Required)
In calculating FTE, one full-time staff, two half-time staff or four quarter-time staff would all equal one full-time equivalent staff (i.e. 1 FTE).
During the coming year, how do you expect your paid FTE staffing level to change? NOTE: If you have no paid staff, then use unpaid core leaders for this question instead.(Required)
In calculating FTE, one full-time staff, two half-time staff or four quarter-time staff would all equal one full-time equivalent staff (i.e. 1 FTE).
Which statement best describes your current year budget compared with last year's budget?(Required)
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Choose all that apply to your church during the past 12 months.(Required)
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The following questions are on the topic of disciple-making. Its important to answer these questions using this definition of disciple-making: People intentionally entering into relationships to help others follow Jesus, become more like Jesus, and join the mission of Jesus. Disciple-making includes the whole process from conversion through maturation and multiplication, which is making disciples who in turn make other disciples.
Approximately what percent of your congregation engages in disciple-making on a regular, consistent basis beyond their own family members?(Required)
Think about how you spend your time as a pastor. About what percentage of your time is spent on administrative meetings and tasks during a typical week?(Required)
About what percentage of your time is spent on sermons and sermon preparations during a typical week?(Required)
About what percentage of your time is spent on pastoral care during a typical week?(Required)
About what percentage of your time is spent on personally discipling individuals during a typical week?(Required)
About what percentage of your time is spent on personally equipping people to make disciple-makers of others during a typical week?(Required)
My church has a simple, reproducible model to equip our members to make disciples, who make disciples, who make other disciples(Required)
My church has a framework or metric for measuring our success at making disciples, who make disciples, who make other disciples(Required)
How often, if at all, do the disciple-making efforts of your church produce leaders who are sent to plant new churches?(Required)
Approximately what percentage of the core leaders in your church feel their single most important role as a leader is to coach and equip people to make disciples, who make disciples, who make other disciples?(Required)
Think about the major church-related decisions your core leadership makes. About what percentage of those decisions are made with the impact on your church’s disciple-making as the primary decision factor?(Required)
How frequently, if at all, do the core leaders in your church set aside time as a group to fast and pray specifically for reaching lost people in your community?(Required)
About how often do you hear stories from your core leaders about a lost person they have helped lead to a commitment to Jesus Christ as Savior, who is now actively engaged in reaching others?(Required)
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Jesus-style of relational disciple making is the core mission for the church and shapes nearly everything we do.(Required)
Our leaders set the example and model Jesus-style of disciple making in every activity of the church.(Required)
Our core leaders spend at least 20% of their time and intentionality outside of Sunday gatherings, not just on making disciples, but on making disciple makers (of lay leaders).(Required)
We have a culture where every church decision is filtered through the question: “how will this help us make disciples like Jesus?”(Required)
There is a joyful, urgent expectancy that every disciple must become a disciple maker.(Required)
We have a simple and reproducible disciple-making model that every leader is taught and seeks to practice in their own lives.(Required)
Praying and fasting are top priorities within our church for God to empower urgency and favor in disciple-making (which includes evangelism). Prayer and fasting are entrenched in our church culture with our leaders participating a couple of times each week (intensified in special seasons).(Required)
Within our church culture, it is clear that we expect everyone to be a disciple, growing in the fullness of Jesus, and becoming a disciple maker investing in others.(Required)
Within our church culture, the primary motivation for mobilization expanding disciple making rather than volunteerism to fill service roles.(Required)
Within our church culture, almost everyone who becomes part of our church family becomes mobilized to make disciples and plant churches.(Required)
Our members are challenged proactively and regularly (including from the main stage) to embrace disciple making as a lifestyle and normal rhythm of life.(Required)
Our leaders and members believe they are part of a disciple making culture.(Required)
Our Bylaws, Articles of Incorporation, and / or other core governing documents specifically put priority on disciple making as a core mission and strategy of the church.(Required)
Our web site has strong visibility and priority on disciple making (i.e. anyone visiting our web site would know that we are committed to Jesus-style of disciple making).(Required)
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e.g. Baptist, Acts 29, Stadia, New Thing, Wesleyan, etc.
Church Location / Context(Required)
Church Staffing Model(Required)
Which of the following race or ethnicities make up 25% or more of the people participating in your church? Select all that are greater than 25%(Required)
To submit your assessment for scoring, click the “Submit” button below. You will receive a confirmation page with your results, as well as a confirmation email. The Exponential and Discipleship.org Teams

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