Church Name ______________ Denomination __________
City/State _____________ Church Telephone __________
Resident Members ________ Average attendance _______
Church Growth Survey
1. Does your church have a long range plan in place?
yes ________ no ________
If yes, is it written in the form of a vision for your church?
yes ______ no _______
2. Do most of your members know their spiritual gifts?
yes ______ no _______
If yes, does your church have a system of placing people according to their gifts?
yes _______ no _______
3. Can your church now and has it in the past been able to discern truth in times of crisis?
yes ______ no ________
If yes, describe one such crisis and how truth was discerned?
4. Is your church plateau, declining, or growing?
plateau _____ declining _____ growing _____
5. Does your church offer evangelism training throughout the year?
yes _____ no _____
6. On a scale of 1-10, how evangelistic do you see your church?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
7. Does your church have a "new Member" class or some other system of orienting new
yes _____ no _____
If yes, what do you have? _________________________
_____________________________________________
8. Does your church take great care in making sure new
converts understand the demands of discipleship?
yes _________ no _________
9. How would you describe the quality of teaching in your church?
excellent _____ good _____ fair _____
10. Has your church adopted in business a church mission statement?
yes ______ no ______
11. Does your church have any kind of accountability built into it related to attendance, discipline, or discipleship?
yes _____ no _____
12. What area(s) of church life does your church look for growth to occur? (ex. Sunday School, revivals, personal soul winning, etc.)
Sunday school _____ revivals _____ personal soul winning _____ other __________________
13. Is your church overstructured (a lot going on but little results), understructured ( little happening with complaints your church is not offering enough), structured wrong (programmatic but not evangelistic), or structured just right ( the right mix of programs that have an evangelistic thrust)?
Overstructured _____ Understructured _____ Structured wrong _____ Structured just right _____
14. Does your church have trouble finding people to fill leadership positions?
Yes _____ No _____
15. How aware is your community on what your church has to offer its citizens?
it's not ____ little aware _____ some aware _____ alot aware _____
16. Does your church have any kind of "teaming" or big brother system where you put a new Christian with a mature Christian so they can be discipled and nurtured?
yes _____ no _____
17. How important do you consider style in your preaching? (manner, way, and the how of delivery)
no importance _____ little importance _____ some importance _____ very important _____
18. How important is prayer in your church? Check those that apply. Your church has:
_____ prayer chains
_____ prayer ministry
_____ times of prayer/fasting
_____ cottage prayer meetings
_____ prayer room
_____ Sunday school prayer leaders
_____ men's prayer group
_____ ladies prayer group
_____ other ___________________________
19. You would be interested in a copy of "Built by the Owner's Design" when it has been updated?
yes _____ no _____
20. I give Danny Von Kanel to use this survey in general ways to address church growth in his book. I understand no specific church or individual names will be used except in a positive light.
Your Name _______________________ (optional)
Position ____________________________
Send to dannyvon.bellsouth.net
or 2109 Clairain Drive, Franklinton, Louisiana 70438
Enlist five people to complete survey and receive copy of Danny's book: Building Sunday School by the Owner's Design.
See special offer from CSS Publishing: www.csspub.com/BuiltChurchGrowth.lasso
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