Life of Church Evaluation

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Name* This field is required.

First Name

Last Name

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Email* This field is required.

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Phone Number

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Name of the church being evaluated:* This field is required.

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Which best describes the way your congregation talks about your church?* This field is required.

Many of our people are excited and tell others about our church.

Our people are generally content with our church.

Some of our people are discouraged as attendance declines.

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Which best describes your ministry results?* This field is required.

Our ministry efforts are seeing good results in people reached, disciples, and leaders.

Our ministry efforts are seeing limited results in people being reached, disciples, and leaders.

Our ministry efforts are not seeing measurable results in people being reached, disciples, and leaders.

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Which best describes your church’s worship experience?* This field is required.

Our worship services are fresh and inspirational.

Our worship services tend to be routine and predictable.

Our worship services are dated.

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Which best describes your congregation’s outreach?* This field is required.

We are intentional and active in our community.

We have limited connections to our community.

We have little or no presence in our community.

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Which best describes the professions of faith and baptisms in your church?* This field is required.

We see regular professions of faith and baptisms.

We have a few professions of faith and baptisms each year.

We haven’t seen professions of faith and baptisms in the last two years.

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Which best describes how your congregation helps people find ways to serve?* This field is required.

People are assessed, equipped, and coached to serve using their spiritual gifts.

People are serving in multiple roles to fill vacancies.

People are too busy and unavailable to serve.

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Which best describes the way your congregation develops leaders?* This field is required.

We consistently develop new leaders.

We depend upon the leaders we have.

We're not developing new leaders.

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Which best describes your congregation’s spiritual health?* This field is required.

The fruits of the Spirit are evident and widespread.

The fruits of the Spirit are evident yet fading.

The fruits of the Spirit are limited and sporadic.

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Total Spiritual Score

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Which best describes the attitude of your congregation regarding attendance?* This field is required.

There's a sense of enthusiasm toward services, programs, and events.

There's a sense of duty or habit toward services, programs, and events.

There's a sense of low expectations toward services, programs, and events.

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Which best describes the motivation of your congregation regarding your church’s vision?* This field is required.

Our people are energized by our clear purpose and direction.

Our people are not particularly moved to action by our vision.

Our people are discouraged that we are not moving forward.

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Which best describes the primary investment of time in your congregation?* This field is required.

Much of our time is spent building for the future.

Most of our time is focused on doing well in the present.

Many would like to resurrect the past.

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Which best describes the feelings that move your church?* This field is required.

We have a passion for creating and expanding new ministry opportunities.

We are concerned that it’s increasingly difficult to maintain our programs.

We have a fear that we will not be able to survive due to declining participation and giving.

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Which best describes your congregation’s openness to partnering with another church?* This field is required.

We get excited about having a greater impact.

We are curious about what it would require.

We are apprehensive about losing our autonomy.

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Which best describes your congregation’s approach to change?* This field is required.

Our people are comfortable making changes to fulfill our church’s vision.

Our people are cautious about making changes.

Our people are resistant to making changes.

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Which best describes your congregation’s approach to ministry?* This field is required.

We thrive on innovative strategies.

We are satisfied with our current strategies.

We are resistant to new strategies.

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Which best describes your congregation’s acceptance of risk?* This field is required.

Our congregation enthusiastically embraces risk.

Our congregation cautiously takes measured risks.

Our congregation rarely takes risks.

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Total Emotional Score

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Which best describes your church’s discipleship process?* This field is required.

It creates growth and outreach.

It creates community and fellowship within the congregation.

It is not emphasized.

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Which best describes your church’s numerical growth trend?* This field is required.

We are growing with steady gains month to month.

We are stable with little variance month to month.

We are declining.

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Which best describes how your leaders build consensus?* This field is required.

We prioritize building consensus within our leadership team.

We are inconsistent with building consensus within our leadership team.

We struggle with building consensus within our leadership team.

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Which best describes your congregation’s general support of leadership?* This field is required.

How we operate as a church receives good support.

How we operate as a church has limited support.

How we operate as a church is met with opposition.

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Which best describes the way you find new leaders for your church?* This field is required.

We actively look for, develop, and coach emerging leaders.

We primarily use established leaders.

We rarely find new leaders.

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Which best describes the age demographic of your congregation?* This field is required.

Multigenerational (A fairly even mix of children, youth, adults, and seniors)

Majority Middle-Aged and Seniors (Most are 40 and older, with some young families or children)

Majority Seniors (A majority are 65 and older)

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Which best describes your church's facility?* This field is required.

It serves us well.

It serves our needs but needs improvement.

It does not serve us well and needs renovation.

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Which best describes leadership engagement in ministry in your church?* This field is required.

They are encouraged and actively engaged.

They meet the needs of our programs.

They are wearing many hats.

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Total Organizational Score

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Which best describes the vision of your church?* This field is required.

Clear and compelling, and motivates the people.

Clear and compelling to leadership, but gives limited motivation.

Unclear or non-existent.

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Which best describes your church's values?* This field is required.

Our values define who we are and are effectively lived out in ministry.

Our values are stated but are not consistently lived out in ministry.

Our values are not well known and thus do not influence our ministry.

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Which best describes how our church operates* This field is required.

We have consistent systems that help us achieve our mission.

We have outdated and ineffective systems that need to be revisited.

We do not have systems that help us achieve our mission.

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Which best describes your church's capacity to multiply?* This field is required.

We develop leaders with the intent to deploy them in and out of the church.

We recruit people with the intent to maintain the ministries of the church.

We do not actively develop leaders.

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Which best describes the generosity of your church?* This field is required.

We share our resources and people.

We do not pursue sharing our resources and people.

Our church doesn’t have resources to share.

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Which of the following responses best describes your congregation’s small group ministry?* This field is required.

We have healthy small groups that seek to multiply.

We have a few small groups, but they don’t attract new people.

We don’t have any small groups.

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Which of the following responses best describes your congregation’s commitment to multiplication?* This field is required.

We have launched a new venue, campus, or church plant in the last 5 years.

We have a desire to support a new venue, campus, or church plant in the next 5 years but haven't yet.

We have never considered church planting as a multiplication strategy.

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Which of the following responses best describes your congregation’s process of leadership development?* This field is required.

We intentionally develop new leaders and have a clear pathway for them.

We recruit leaders to serve in some capacity but provide minimal training.

Leaders are identified but not trained for ministry.

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Total DNA Score

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Which of the following responses best describes your congregation’s financial giving base?* This field is required.

The people in our congregation who give are spread across a wide variety of age groups.

The people in our congregation who give are predominantly middle-aged or seniors.

The people in our congregation who give are predominantly seniors.

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Which of the following responses best describes the financial reserves of your church?* This field is required.

Our financial reserves are growing.

Our financial reserves are adequate.

Our financial reserves are dwindling.

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Which of the following responses best describes your congregation’s financial health?* This field is required.

Our church can comfortably support a full-time lead pastor.

Our church can only support a part-time lead pastor.

We can only support our pastor from reserves and/or outside support.

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Which of the following responses best describes your congregation’s church facility?* This field is required.

Our church building is attractive and inviting.

Our church building is adequate but outdated.

Our church building needs significant repair.

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Which of the following responses best describes your congregation’s budget?* This field is required.

Our church budget reflects our vision to reach our community.

Our church budget meets our congregation’s needs.

Our church budget is shrinking.

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Which of the following responses best describes your congregation’s training and support on giving?* This field is required.

We regularly teach about tithing and generosity.

We emphasize giving as needs arise in the church.

We tend to shy away from teaching about money and stewardship.

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Which of the following responses best describes your congregation’s activity in missions?* This field is required.

Our mission budget is a priority.

We are limited in taking on new missions.

We have a few people that give to missions.

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Which of the following responses best describes your congregation’s outreach budget?* This field is required.

A substantial percentage of our budget goes to outreach.

A modest amount of our budget goes to outreach.

Our budget goes to staffing, operations, and buildings.

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Total Financial Score

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Final Total Score

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