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Church Growth and the Metrics That Matter
Are We Measuring What Jesus Is Forming?
Read it. Preach it. Take your team through it.
A practical framework for measuring spiritual formation alongside attendance, giving, and participation.
- 17 chapters
- 158-page PDF
- About 2 hours to read
By Kraig Kleeman, founder of The Zoé Life
The Core Premise
Activity tells us what people are doing. Formation tells us who people are becoming.
Why This Matters
Churches measure what is easy to count. This book adds a second scorecard, eight signs of formation and better questions, so leaders can see what Jesus is forming without throwing away the old numbers.
What You'll Discover
- Why our metrics stop too soon
- The trouble with proxy metrics
- A second scorecard and eight signs of formation
- Better questions for leadership teams
- An imagined annual report of formation
From the Book
The goal is not spiritual ranking. It is spiritual visibility.
Fruit through a person is not always the same thing as fruit in a person.
Preaching & Teaching Kit
Free during previewA sermon series that brands itself for your church
Upload your church logo and "What Is Jesus Forming in Us?" rebuilds itself in your colors: the guide, the slides and every handout, in seconds. No designer, no reformatting. Add it for $39 and take the book from your study to your pulpit, your leaders and your small groups.
- Auto-branded: upload your logo and every piece takes on your church's colors
- 5-week preaching guide, with one-message and class versions
- 73-slide series deck, with your logo on the title slide
- 3 team handouts, ready to print in your colors
- Free team link for your staff and group leaders
- The whole kit as one ZIP download
- Week 1Until Christ Is Formed in You
- Week 2Busy Is Not the Same as Growing
- Week 3Direction, Not Perfection
- Week 4The Questions Jesus Asks
- Week 5Fruit That Remains
Try your church colors
Pick a pair, or your own main color. The slides on this page recolor right away.
In the kit, you upload your logo and we pull your real colors for the slides, guide and handouts. See how it works
The slides
Four of the 73 slides in the deck, from Week 1. Pick a color above and they change with it.
Title slide. Your church logo sits in the corner.
Week opener, with the sermon title and Scripture.
Key line, the book's own words, quoted exactly.
Small-group questions to close the week.
Every handout, ready to print
Real first pages from the kit. One for the preacher, two for your leaders, one for everyone.
For the preacherPreaching guide: What Is Jesus Forming in Us?The pastor's preaching and teaching guide plus series slides, with a one-message version and a class version.
For your leadership teamStaff Discussion GuideQuestions for each of the five Parts, for leadership teams reading the book together.
For your leadership teamBetter QuestionsChapter 11's formation questions on one sheet, for reviews, groups, and one-on-ones.
For your congregation and groupsFormation ScorecardA personal reflection sheet built on Chapter 10's eight signs. Evidence, not scores.
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