Evaluating Personal Performance
Gene Getz
The greatest resource for self-evaluation is openness, the quality of being open with elders, staff, and spouse.
Gene Getz Self-evaluation in ministry has a built-in dilemma: Effective ministry demands a certain absence of self-consciousness, yet evaluating ministry demands self-awareness. It takes an unusual person to do this. Gene Getz is just such an unusual person; he's both an activist and an analyst. After teaching Christian education and directing the evening school at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, he moved to Dallas Theological Seminary in Texas. "This was during the anti-institutional era of the late sixties, and I had students asking tough questions like 'Who needs the church?'" says Getz. His defense of the church and what it should be eventually became a book — Sharpening the Focus of the Church. But then he was challenged to put his theories into practice. In 1972, with approximately eight couples, he started Fellowship Bible Church. Within a year, the church was holding double services, and Getz had to choose between being full-time professor or full-time pastor. He opted for the pastorate. Branch churches began to sprout, and four years later, in 1977, Getz himself left the home base to pastor the Park Cities branch. Currently fourteen Fellowship Bible Churches are ministering in the Dallas area. Getz is pastor of Fellowship Bible Church North in Plano as well as director of the Center for Church Renewal. How can a Christian leader tell if he or she is doing a good job? What are the signs that things are going well? The first sign is spiritual growth. Are people responding spiritually? Are lives being changed? Second, if there is potential, there should be numerical growth. There are areas with little potential ...
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