Does your church promote a culture that encourages people to serve in ministry? Do the leaders see their job as equippers\u00a0rather than\u00a0doers of all significant things? Here’s how you can find out.<\/p>\n
Take the following volunteer attitude and behavior survey and reflect on what you discover. Next, copy it and ask some people in your church to complete the survey too. What common themes do you see among responses? Now\u00a0make this your prayer list\u2014asking God to change attitudes and behaviors that hinder\u00a0people\u00a0from finding\u00a0desirable places of service in your church.<\/p>\n
Instructions:<\/strong> Put a check next to each statement that\u00a0applies to your church as you\u2019ve experienced it.\u00a0Select\u00a0statements that reflect what your church actually believes and does, not what they should believe and do.<\/em><\/p>\n 1___Leaders don\u2019t truly believe that God has called each Christian to do significant ministry.<\/p>\n 2___Leaders don\u2019t truly believe that each Christian has a God-given ability, skill, or passion to use in ministry.<\/p>\n 3___Paid staff end up doing most of the tasks from the committee meetings they attend.<\/p>\n 4___Our church has no organized system for recruiting volunteers and placing them in a role that matches their gifting.<\/p>\n 5___Leaders hesitate to work with volunteer because of poor experience in the past.<\/p>\n 6___Paid staff members seem to fear that they\u2019ll lose their positions if they don\u2019t do all the work themselves.<\/p>\n 7___Church leaders seem to feel that volunteers are unreliable.<\/p>\n 8___Our leaders believe that using volunteers creates more work than it\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n 9___The church seems unresponsive when it comes to volunteers\u2019 suggestions, input or ideas.<\/p>\n 10___Pastors and\/or ministry leaders prefer to accomplish tasks on their own.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The items check above may help you determine directions for culture change to make your church more volunteer friendly.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Does your church promote a culture that encourages people to serve in ministry? Do the leaders see their job as equippers\u00a0rather than\u00a0doers of all significant things? Here’s how you can find out. Take the following volunteer attitude and behavior survey and reflect on what you discover. Next, copy it and ask some people in your church to complete the survey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":31716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,670],"tags":[331,659,660,381],"class_list":["post-30940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lead","category-volunteers","tag-culture","tag-survey","tag-volunteer-attitude-and-behavior-survey","tag-volunteer-friendly"],"yoast_head":"\n