At our last district clergy meeting our District Superintendent was speaking about metrics and vital churches and wanted to make one thing clear:
Numbers are not vitality. Numbers are contextual.
This is so true. Numbers give us insight but they are not vitality. I found a similar thought expressed on Twitter recently
Growth ≠ The Mission. Growth is a tactic in service of The Mission. Don't mistake tactics for what you're actually trying to accomplish.—
Joshua Blankenship (@blankenship) September 23, 2011
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