Tracking Your Church’s Discipleship

ACS Technologies proposes creating a spiritual growth assessment tool.

How can a church know that it is making disciples?

Dallas Willard observed that most churches measure the wrong things, such as attendance and giving, instead of more fundamental things like anger, honesty, and obedience.

ACS Technologies, in this article, advocates for spiritual growth assessments in churches and provides guidance on how to create them.

The company suggests that most churches do not have the right tools to measure spiritual qualities. The article outlines a self-assessment tool that congregants might use to track their spiritual growth and that church leaders might use to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their discipleship process. ACS Tech advises church leaders to define what areas to measure by searching the scriptures, discussing with a team of leaders, and considering their mission, vision, and core values. The company suggests a place to start might include tracking spiritual disciplines, character traits, and ministry/missional involvement.

In order to determine what types of data to collect, ACS Tech suggests gathering a team, defining each characteristic clearly, developing assessment questions, and designing the data collection tool. The article emphasizes the importance of providing next steps for discipleship based on the results and suggests analyzing the results to identify areas for impor.

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