Church planter assessment

  The time i have spent in the pastoral ministry class has not only been educational, but fun too. This last assignment was what I was looking forward too more then the others because it was an evaluation of myself. The class assignment I picked for this class was church planter pre-assesment. This one stuck out to me because it measures your strengths and weaknesses in ministry, aleast in regards to church planting.  This evaluation was made up of one hundred and two questions that measure a person’s ability to be a church planter. Once the questions are answered a print out is givin with a comparison chart or a grading system as I call it. The four breakdowns are as followed church planting, entepreneurial leadership, ministry expierience, and relational evangelism. Church planting I came in at forty percent out of one hundred. Tom, my teacher and a church planter also; said that the knock out questions in which he pointed out to me is where I was lacking. This is what I have been waiting to hear. I believe that any Christian will not always enjoy but accept comments about areas that growth is needed.  Personally, I find this process benificial. The time I stop evaluating my own strengths and fault is when I am taking my eye off the ball so to speak. Enterpreneuial leadersip was next in which I got a sixty-six percent only for the fact that I own a small buisness in the past. Ministry was next in which I got a fifty-five percent and after being faced with this i had to admit that there are many situations in ministry that I had not come across yet and more growth in that area is needed. The final section is relational evagelism. In this section, I scored an eighty-four percent. I was not suprised since this is one of my passions in ministry and for many years, I have reached out with Christ love to others. Over all this was a great assignment for the simple fact that I get a transparent look at where I am in certain areas of ministry. I believe self-examination is the best kind of exam because when I am honest about the areas in my life where the Holy Spirit needs to work on that is when freedom comes.