Changing Metrics: The Benefits of Measuring Devotion and Obedience, Not Just Numbers
Sponsored by: Leadership Network
Type: Research
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Many next generation pastors offer insightful, practical, and sometimes surprising suggestions to help people respond wholeheartedly to God’s call. These include:
- Change your approach to learning.
- Paint graphic verbal pictures of devotion.
- Welcome questions.
- Blend the roles of prophet and shepherd.
- Expose people to other cultures.
- Expose people to desperate needs.
- Expose people to your home and your family.
- Incarnate the gospel in mission trips.
- Consider the impact of theology on metrics.
- Normalize the process of transformation.
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