How do we reveal our church priorities?

· Finances – budget allocation, goals of major funding campaigns

· Calendar – where most of our time is spent

· Quality, consistency, and extent of promotion and education.

Hiring – What jobs we hire staff to do.
Expectations - Job descriptions and training
· Limits - What we conclude we can’t do because of what we think we have to do.

· Delegation - What we take responsibility for ourselves at the highest level of staff and elders vs. what we delegate to committees.

· Quality - What we insist be done consistently, with excellence, and on time (regardless of the number of volunteers and extent of commitment) vs. what we let run on its own.

· Event priorities - What we put first in recruiting, training, and overseeing volunteers (number, capability, and commitment) and what we allow to get the remainder.

· Conversation - What we spend a lot of time discussing in staff meetings and elder meetings.

Worship Services - What happens in the pulpit
Prayer - What we pray about
Activities - Selection and preparation for church activities
Ethos - The look and feel of the church
Goals and plans, curricula and activities for discipleship and every other ministry
Ministry reports and evaluations
Programs to add, change, or drop

How could we implement a Great Commission-Driven Church?

1. Every staff member and lay leader understands that the purpose of his/her ministry is to make the maximum spiritual impact on the world.

2. Every program is designed to make the maximum impact on world evangelism.

3. Every program or ministry is evaluated regularly in regard to its impact on world evangelism.

4. Every leader is evaluated regularly in regard to the same.

5. Every staff member is hired with this understanding.