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Are Your Group Members GROWing?

By Paul | February 16, 2007

plant-growing.gifHere’s a great discipleship evaluation that you could give your group members that is based on the GROW principles, as a means to stimulate action items in weak areas and celebrate what God is doing in each person spiritually in strong areas. (written by Kelli Templeton)

God-Lover Data (1-4 scale – 1 never, 4 almost always):

  1. I have faith in Jesus Christ and have declared Him my personal Savior.
  2. I engage in regular time with God through Bible reading and prayer.
  3. I express adoration and thanksgiving to God through music, words, attitudes, and actions.
  4. I have a loving, intimate relationship with the Father.
  5. I hear and yield to the promptings of the Holy Spirit.

Relationship-Builder Data (1-4 scale)

  1. I faithfully attend church worship services.
  2. I regularly invest in the spiritual life of another person or group.
  3. I am aware of my spiritual gifts and serve other believers for their good.
  4. I relate to my family members (parents, siblings, kids, spouse) in a way that pleases God.
  5. I seek reconciliation, forgiving and asking forgiveness for both real and perceived offenses.

Obedient Follower Data (1-4 scale)

  1. I rely on the Bible more than feelings/experience for my belief and actions.
  2. I am honoring God with my finances (spending and giving).
  3. I submit to the authorities God has place in my life.
  4. I live in grace rather than fear or legalism.
  5. My goals, plans, relationships and expectations are surrendered to God.

World Influencer Data (1-4 scale)

  1. I pray for, engage with, and invite my unchurched family and friends.
  2. I watch for and seize opportunities to talk about God in daily conversations.
  3. I work to promote good and expose evil in our community.
  4. I use my resources (time, money, etc) to meet the needs of the poor and needy.
  5. I know who Bethel’s missionaries are and what they do, and I pray for them.
  6. I have been involved in a mission trip.

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One Response to “Are Your Group Members GROWing?”

  1. Mary Says:
    February 16th, 2007 at 5:47 pm

    This is excellent! Exactly what we need to enable our ministries to quantitatively evaluate how effective the ministry is in GROWing God’s people!