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Does Your Children's Ministry Focus on Education or Discipleship?
Is your church focused on education or discipleship? How would you define discipleship?
- Do you purchase age-graded resources and concentrate on the developmental learning styles of children?
- Does your church age-grade children?
- Do leaders in your church see children as younger brothers and sisters in Christ?
- Is your ministry model to children such that children sit and listen while an adult leader ministers to them?
- Are children serving using their spiritual gifts?
- Is it your ministry's goal to make disciples who make disciples? For children to become disciple makers themselves?
- Are children trained and released as missionaries?
We have developed a special test to assess your ministry focus to learn where you are as a children's ministry or church.
Click here to download a copy of the test.
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Education vs. Discipleship Assessment
The purpose of this test is to help you assess where your ministry to children is today and how to improve what you are doing to disciple and equip children for ministry. The scale is from 1 to 5 with 1 being the least and 5 being the highest level.
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1. Our teachers focus on the heart of a child versus their knowledge of Scripture. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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2. Students serve with younger children in my church. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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3. Children are to be seen but not heard in my church. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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4. Children are trained to be missionaries in their schools. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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5. Our church shows families how to prioritize their child’s faith development at home. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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6. Preteens and students in my church are taking part in teaching and discipling younger children. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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7. Children have regular opportunities to serve in my church. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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8. Children sit and listen while an adult ministers to them. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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9. Children in my church know how to share the Gospel. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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10. Families encourage their children to spend time with Christ daily. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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11. Teachers in my church know the spiritual gifts within their groups and engage children in their groups according to their spiritual gifts. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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12. Children are being trained how to use their spiritual gifts and are given opportunities to use them. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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13. Our church is age-graded to embrace the developmental styles of children and students. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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14. Children in my church are regularly engaged in ministry in our community. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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15. Families have a basic understanding of how to disciple their children at home. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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16. Teachers in my church show children how to pray and pray regularly with them. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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17. Children are using their spiritual gifts in my church. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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18. Children are age-graded in my church according to their developmental level. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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19. Children take part in a yearly evangelistic mission trip. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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20. Parents take an active role in their child’s spiritual growth. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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21. Our small group leaders show children how to develop spiritual disciplines by example. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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22. Preteens in my church our allowed to teach Bible studies to younger children. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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23. Children hear stories about missionaries. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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24. Children in my church know how to lead their friends to Christ. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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25. Children in my church do daily quiet times at home. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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26. Our teachers memorize the same verses that they are asking their class to memorize. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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27. Children are serving regularly in my church. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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28. Children in our church attend Vacation Bible School. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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29. Children in my church are regularly mobilized into our community to reach the lost. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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30. Parents prioritize church over other activities in their child’s life. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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31. When a child in my church gets saved, we show them how to walk with Christ daily. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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32. Children in my church serve in Vacation Bible School. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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33. When a child in our church is saved, we do not have a follow-up plan to help them walk with Christ in a personal relationship with Him. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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34. Children in my church are trained to lead an evangelistic Bible study. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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35. Parents in my church have made Christ the Lord of their homes. |
1 2 3 4 5 |
Score Your Results
Take a moment to write your scores below next to the appropriate number. This will help you find out where your church currently is in family ministry and in discipling and equipping children. These scores will help you determine where your church is focusing its attention right now. High scores in family, discipleship, equipping, and missions mean you are on an excellent track to properly disciple children in your church. Do not get discouraged; this will help you make positive changes to become a disciple-making church.
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