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A self-examination for pastors and church leaders

Church Health Assessment

This is not a survey about attendance, budgets, or buildings. It measures whether your church is making disciples who make disciples — Jesus’ own scorecard. A large, well-funded church can score low here. A small, ordinary one can score high. That is the point. Score what is actually happening, not what you preach, hope, or intend. The gap between the two is exactly what this tool exists to show you.

Rate each area 1 to 5. Anchors are given at 1, 3, and 5 — use 2 or 4 for the spaces in between. Score the congregation, not yourself: where a question asks about “members,” answer for the ordinary people in your pews, not for you and your staff.

Step 1

Your information

We’ll use this only to send your results and, if you’d like, to connect you with a coach.

Step 2

Rate your church across 12 aspects

  1. 1The Pastor Goes First

    Do the church’s leaders personally make disciples — not just preach about it?

    1
    Leadership disciples no one personally; the pastor’s role is understood as preaching, teaching, and running the church.
    3
    Leaders believe in disciple-making and encourage it, but few are currently doing it themselves with a real person.
    5
    The pastor and other leaders are personally discipling and reaching lost people right now, and the church knows their stories. They only ask of members what they are already doing.
  2. 2The Scoreboard

    What does the church actually count, celebrate, and report?

    1
    Success is measured almost entirely by attendance, offerings, and building or program size.
    3
    The church says disciple-making matters, but the only numbers it actually tracks and celebrates are attendance and giving.
    5
    The church counts and celebrates obedience and multiplication — how many are in a discovery group, facilitating one, sharing their faith, and how many groups have started new groups — with the same seriousness as attendance.
  3. 3Disciple-Makers Being Reproduced

    How many members are making disciples who go on to make disciples?

    1
    Essentially none. Disciple-making, where it happens at all, stops with the paid staff.
    3
    A handful of members are discipling others, but almost nothing has reached a second generation — few disciples have made disciples of their own.
    5
    Ordinary members are regularly making disciples, and those disciples are making disciples — you can name real second-, third-, and fourth-generation fruit.
  4. 4Obedience Over Knowledge

    Is following Jesus measured by obedience, or by knowing and attending?

    1
    A “good member” is defined by showing up and knowing the Bible; whether anyone actually obeys what they learn is never asked.
    3
    Obedience is preached and valued, but there is no regular, loving accountability where people actually follow through on what they’ve committed to do.
    5
    Every gathering expects a step of obedience (“I will…”) and follows up on it warmly the next time — never with shame, always with encouragement. Obedience, not information, is the mark of growth.
  5. 5The Word and the Spirit as Teacher

    Can ordinary members open Scripture and hear from God directly — or does it have to go through professionals?

    1
    Spiritual input flows one direction: from the expert at the front to passive listeners. Members would not know how to feed themselves from a passage.
    3
    Members read their Bibles, but still assume real understanding requires the pastor to explain it to them.
    5
    Ordinary members — even new ones — can open a passage, discover truth from it, and help others do the same, trusting the text and the Spirit rather than waiting for an expert.
  6. 6Every Member a Minister

    Is the work of ministry distributed to ordinary members, or bottlenecked in the staff?

    1
    Ministry is what the paid staff do; members attend and consume. If the staff stopped, almost everything would stop.
    3
    Members volunteer to help run programs, but the actual spiritual work — discipling, praying with people, sharing faith — is still mostly done by leaders.
    5
    Leaders see their job as equipping the saints for ministry (Eph. 4). Ordinary members carry the real spiritual work, and much would continue even without the staff.
  7. 7Reproducibility

    Can the newest disciple copy what the church does — without money, buildings, credentials, or expertise?

    1
    What the church does requires a building, budget, trained professionals, and special materials. A new believer could not begin to reproduce it.
    3
    Some things are reproducible, but the church keeps adding requirements — materials, credentials, polish — that ordinary people can’t easily copy.
    5
    The church’s core disciple-making can be reproduced by the newest believer with nothing but a Bible, a few people, and a willingness to obey. “Can the newest disciple do this?” is a live question.
  8. 8Go and Make vs. Invite and Watch

    Are members personally reaching the lost in their own networks — or is evangelism just inviting people to a service?

    1
    The whole evangelism strategy is “invite them to church and let the professionals handle it.” Members do not personally engage lost people with the gospel.
    3
    Members will invite friends to events or services, but rarely start a spiritual conversation or a Bible study with a lost person themselves.
    5
    Members are personally going to the lost in their own families and networks — sharing their story, opening Scripture with them, praying for persons of peace — rather than waiting to invite them to a building.
  9. 9Praying for the Harvest

    Does the church actually depend on God for laborers, or run on human effort and programs?

    1
    Prayer for the lost and for new workers is rare or perfunctory; the church runs on planning, programs, and volunteer recruitment.
    3
    The church prays, but its prayers are mostly for its own needs and members; asking the Lord to raise up laborers is not a regular, believing habit.
    5
    The church earnestly and regularly asks the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers (Luke 10:2), and expects Him to — dependence on God, not human effort, is the felt engine.
  10. 10Release, Not Control

    Do leaders work themselves out of a job and entrust real responsibility to young believers?

    1
    Leadership holds tightly to control; little real responsibility is given away, and new or young believers are not trusted with much.
    3
    Leaders delegate tasks, but keep final control of anything spiritually significant; few new leaders are actually being released.
    5
    Leaders deliberately model, assist, watch, and then launch others — measuring success by how many leaders they release, not how much they personally run. Young believers are trusted with real responsibility.
  11. 11New Believers Reaching Milestones

    Are new believers actually growing — praying aloud, obeying, being baptized, sharing, forming family — or stalling at attendance?

    1
    New believers are absorbed into the crowd and plateau; the only visible “growth” is that they now attend regularly.
    3
    New believers grow in knowledge and involvement, but rarely reach the further milestones — praying aloud, being baptized out of their own discovery, sharing their faith, starting something.
    5
    New believers visibly move through real milestones — obeying the Word, praying aloud, baptism they discover and desire, sharing faith, forming spiritual family, even reproducing — and are equipped to help the next one do the same.
  12. 12Spiritual Family, Not an Audience

    Is the church a genuine family that shares life — or a weekly gathering of individuals?

    1
    People attend the same service but do not truly share life; there is little real fellowship, care, or knowing one another beyond Sunday.
    3
    There is warmth and some community, but for most members belonging still means attending rather than being devoted to one another.
    5
    The church lives as a spiritual family (Acts 2:42–47) — devoted to one another in fellowship, prayer, generosity, and care, so that belonging is shared life, not just shared seating.