Churches must assess themselves in an effort to be more effective at making disciples.
Most churches do a good job of measuring what Micah Fries calls the "three B's"— budgets, buildings, and baptisms.
Those are helpful, he said. But they don't always show whether a church is fulfilling its mission to make disciples.
"Every church should ask two questions," said Fries, director of ministry development for LifeWay Christian Resources. "'Are we healthy?' and 'Are we making disciples?'"
To help answer those questions, LifeWay developed the Transformational Church Assessment Tool (TCAT)—an 80-question, online survey that looks at a church's spiritual health. Keep reading
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