The value of Statistical Reports

By Gerardo Campos, District pastor, Elim Church, www.elim.org.sv From the beginning of Elim’s cell focus, we asked all leaders to give a full report of what happened in their cells during the week. These statistics let us know how we were doing and whether we were...

Keeping the Right Score

By Timo Barbosa, Catalyst Communities – Southern Cone Brazil, IG @thimoteobarbosa It is easy to spot that too many pastors and ministry leaders have begun to keep score the way the world does. But we must not measure success the way the rest of the world does....

Numbers as Windows

By Steve Cordle, https://xr.church Spiritual growth is notoriously hard to measure. How do you quantify the fruit of the Spirit in someone’s life? How can you gauge the amount of love in a person’s heart? That said, we can gain a little insight into the effectiveness...

The importance of Gathering Cell Statistics

By Joel Comiskey, Passion and Persistence Statistics don’t motivate. Numbers, in fact, can have a “numbing” effect. Well-meaning pastors proclaim idealistic cell group goals which are divorced from reality. They do this to motivatepeople to believe in the impossible,...

Grafted in

By Jeff Tunnell, JCG board member, pastor emeritus, and cell church advocate. According to Marie Iannotti, “Grafting is a technique that joins two plants into one. In general, a wound is created on one of the plants, and the other is inserted into that wound so each...