Collegiate Collective

It can often be difficult to measure success in ministry. In this episode, Patrick Langan shares a tool developed by Intervarsity for measuring missional Christians in your ministry.

Patrick Langan // Area Director for Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Carbondale, Illinois // ivcfsiuc@yahoo.com, roadsidethoughts.org

Notable Points:

• Three ministry areas to measure: Conversions, Numerical Growth, and Missional Christians. The lead-measure is Missional Christians. If we succeed in making Missional Christians, the other two measures will follow.
• Missionary posture: Engaging the mission of God in your context by embracing “sentness” and living the gospel incarnationally.
• The most valuable first step for students is to intentionally pray for their lost friends.
• Key Indicators of a student who is living missionally:
  • Are they praying for non-Christian friends?
  • Are they building intentional relationships?
  • Are they sharing their faith regularly?
  • Are they practicing spiritual disciplines in their personal life?
• The goal for student leaders: Reach other students and help develop missional disciples.
• Setting numerical goals inspires and motivates, and allows us to know when adjustments or innovations are needed.

Links we talked about:

Sentness by Kim Hammond

The Way of the Heart by Henri Nouwen

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