God's Word	1	2	3	4	5
a.	I believe the Word of God is the final basis of authority.
b.	My church uses the Bible as a foundation for church decisions.
c.	My pastor’s sermons are built on the authority of God’s Word.
d.	I find the sermons are convicting and challenging and encouraging to my walk with God.
e.	The Word of God is taught in a creative and Spirit- empowered way throughout our church.
f.	I have been taught how to read, understand, memorize, and apply the Bible properly.
g.	Our church celebrates obedience to the Scripture in our lives.
h.	I am consistently taught lessons that are based on thorough application of God’s Word.
i.	The teaching I receive is at a level I can understand and yet find challenging.
j.	I find answers to life’s issues in God’s Word.

	Passionate Spirituality	1	2	3	4	5
a.	I pray regularly for my pastor and other leaders.
b.	Corporate prayer for revival and spiritual needs saturates the life of my church.
c.	I have a clear understanding of who Christ is, what He has done for me, and who I am in Him.
d.	I am taught to grow in Christian character as the only valid basis for Christian performance.
e.	I invite friends because relationship with Jesus Christ is the visible center of our church’s ministry.
f.	I am growing in intimacy with God because our church leaders teach it and model it in their lives.
g.	The small groups I am involved in help me develop a greater intimacy with God.
h.	I am growing in a prayer life that reflects a deep dependence upon God in every area of life.
i.	I enjoy a greater intimacy with God today than any other previous time in my life.
j.	I find joy in Christ even in times of trials.

	High Impact Worship	1	2	3	4	5
a.	When I leave our worship services I feel I’ve been in the presence of God.
b.	I feel that the music and the sermon glorify God.
c.	My corporate worship experience overflows to intimate personal worship throughout the week.
d.	I look forward to attending the worship service.
e.	I find the worship to be vibrant, meaningful, and joyful.
f.	I become involved in worship as a participant rather than a spectator.
g.	I find the services spiritually energizing.
h.	I find the worship services well organized and inspiring.
i.	Our worship exhibits creativity and spontaneity.
j.	The worship at my church is so inspiring I like to invite my friends.

	Mission and Vision Driven	1	2	3	4	5
a.	My church has a clearly defined statement of mission.
b.	My church regularly evaluates ministry effectiveness based on our mission.
c.	My church’s mission is clearly biblical.
d.	I own and am able to accurately articulate my church’s mission.
e.	My church’s programs have a specific focus and are annually evaluated based on their contribution to the mission.
f.	I respond positively to change directed by mission.
g.	We create programs and add staff based on our mission and vision.
h.	The structures of my church function well and facilitate accomplishment of our mission.
i.	I have a clear understanding of the roles of the pastor, board, staff, congregation and denomination.
j.	I have a clear understanding of my gifts and my role in accomplishing the mission of my church.

	Leadership Development	1	2	3	4	5
a.	I understand the biblical criteria and process for developing and selecting potential leaders.
b.	Leaders are selected on the basis of character first and giftedness second.
c.	The leaders in my church are Spirit led and people of prayer.
d.	The leaders in my church are obedient to the Word.
e.	My church’s leaders are spiritually maturing.
f.	My church’s leaders are leading with Godly integrity.
g.	Our church has a specific set of ministry skills in which we train emerging leaders.
h.	Existing leaders in my church mentor emerging leaders.
i.	I know the structures available in the church to raise up and train leaders.
j.	I regularly hear a challenge to consider vocational ministry.

	Loving Relationships	1	2	3	4	5
a.	I regularly invite others to my church because of the love and compassion I have experienced there.
b.	I share practical acts of love and compassion to people in my community.
c.	Interpersonal conflict is dealt with in a biblical manner.
d.	I am growing in my ability to love other people regardless of their economic position, spiritual development, or race.
e.	I am intentionally building friendships with people different from myself with a view to racial reconciliation.
f.	People who have fallen into sin are accepted and lovingly led to repentance.
g.	Church leaders and pastors initiate individual contact with members outside of programmed events.
h.	I trust the people and the leaders of this church.
i.	I have a close enough relationship with several people in my church that I can discuss my deepest concerns with them.
j.	Our church reflects the diversity of people God has placed on our doorstep.

	Financial Stewardship	1	2	3	4	5
a.	Our church handles its finances with absolute integrity.
b.	I make my financial stewardship a matter of prayer.
c.	I have gained in understanding the spiritual and discipleship implications of money and possessions from the leadership of our pastor.
d.	My church regularly and systematically teaches about materialism and stewardship of possessions to all age groups.
e.	Love, compassion, servanthood and obedience to God, not dollar goals, motivate my financial giving.
f.	Our church is not afraid to ask for regular and sacrificial gifts in order to fulfill its mission.
g.	The church budget reflects our mission priorities, which includes concern for the poor and disadvantaged.
h.	I feel that my giving is integral to the health and vitality of the church.
i.	I make giving a priority because the ministries of my church significantly impact people’s lives.
j.	Growing numbers of people are participating in the financial support of our church.

	Intentional Disciplemaking (Process)	1	2	3	4	5
a.	I have a picture of the process to becoming a fully committed follower of Christ.
b.	My church has helped me, through an intentional process, to discern, develop, value and use my spiritual gift( s).
c.	I pray regularly for workers for the harvest.
d.	We have an intentionally diversified ministry of small groups that challenge people to the next level of spiritual maturity.
e.	I am serving in a ministry in the church that uses my spiritual gift( s).
f.	New people are intentionally and rapidly assimilated into the life of the local church.
g.	Opportunities exist for people of all age levels to grow in their faith.
h.	I have regular opportunity to develop my skills for ministry to one another.
i.	Our church has a clear process that wins the lost, builds the believer, equips the worker, and multiplies the leader.
j.	Our church has a team approach to ministry that encourages and develops emerging leaders.

	Fruitful Evangelism	1	2	3	4	5
a.	Our church celebrates conversions publicly and measures annual conversion growth.
b.	Believers are regularly winning people to Christ.
c.	I have frequent opportunity to invite my unbelieving friends to events that provides a natural link in the process of evangelism.
d.	Our pastor( s) intentionally builds friendships with non- Christians.
e.	I am developing relationships with unbelievers for the purpose of evangelism.
f.	I have access to resources and am encouraged to prioritize my time to relate to my unsaved friends.
g.	I have been trained in how to share my faith with my friends.
h.	I regularly pray for my unsaved friends.
i.	We are encouraged to reach our neighborhood, our nation, and our world with the gospel of Jesus Christ, regardless of racial, economic, or political barriers.
j.	Our church intentionally engages people of other cultures with the purpose of sharing Christ and assimilating them into our congregation.

	Church Planting	1	2	3	4	5
a.	I believe that a natural consequence of church health is reproduction.
b.	I understand that the most effective evangelistic methodology is church planting.
c.	Our church cares enough about unchurched people that significant amounts of time, energy, and resources are invested in reaching them.
d.	Our church has a Great Commission orientation and evaluates potential ministries in terms of the people who still need to be reached, not the limitations of facilities and/ or finances.
e.	Our church actively seeks to spot, train, and/ or mentor potential planters and encourages giving away the best leaders to start new churches.
f.	Our church has a kingdom perspective of the total harvest and encourages new churches to start nearby even if it takes away from our own ministry.
g.	Our church has a spirit of generosity and gives people and financial resources freely to help new churches start.
h.	Our church has written plans to daughter a new church within 24 months and a leadership team that gives focused attention to church planting in our community, district, and globally.
i.	Our church prays regularly for God to reproduce our church in another location.
j.	We have studied and know the various cultures around us and have in our plan the reproducing of ourselves among those people groups.

Questions above developed by the The Evangelical Free Church of America.
See www.efca.org/indicators.pdf.
Used with permission.