{"id":26657,"date":"2021-04-14T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mintools.com\/blog\/?p=26657"},"modified":"2021-04-09T17:45:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T21:45:16","slug":"gods-standard-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mintools.com\/blog\/gods-standard-church.htm","title":{"rendered":"Where Should We Be As a Church?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We need to constantly ask ourselves strategic questions to make sure we get or stay on track as a Church — ministry assessment questions<\/a>. Start with the question “Where should we be as a Church?” because that provides God’s standard against which to measure all other questions we might ask.<\/p>\n

God’s Standard for Answering the Question, “Where Should We Be As a Church?”<\/h2>\n

\"God'sWhile the Church has undergone changes in recent days, we still have an unchanging standard for where we should be:<\/p>\n

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  1. God’s Purposes<\/a> for us to love Him with all of who we are and to love people (Matt. 22:37-40)<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. God’s Design<\/a> for the Church to function as a Body (1 Cor. 12)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    How we get there may change but the above realities should remain our priorities for when we are who we should be, we will tend to do what we should do — God’s mission<\/a> (Matt. 28:18-20).<\/span><\/p>\n

    Reflect on the potential, not the current reality. Then in light of God’s purpose and design for His Church, zero in on what ministry you should be doing to accomplish His priorities.<\/p>\n

    The question “Where should we be as a Church?” is the first of five helpful questions we might ask. Input for doing ministry assessments using those five questions is included in the Staffing Ministry Manual<\/strong><\/a> because to effectively staff, we need to see where it fits into the big picture so we recruit the right people for the right ministries and provide them with the training and resources they need to do the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We need to constantly ask ourselves strategic questions to make sure we get or stay on track as a Church \u2014 ministry assessment questions. Start with the question \u201cWhere should we be as a Church?\u201d because that provides the standard against which to measure all other questions we might ask. Continue reading Where Should We Be As a Church?<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministry-objectives","category-misc-church-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\t