High Energy/ High Satisfaction

During St. Thomas' recent Church Assessment Tool (CAT) work from Holy Cow Consulting our congregation had 210 responses which is about 2/3 of our average attendance. Holy Cow considered this to be a very strong response. One of the assessments is how members see their commitment and energy through a number of questions. St. Thomas came out as a High Energy/ High Satisfaction congregation with our scores compared to other churches rating us in the upper right hand quadrant. So what does this mean? (see followup below the image...)

     This makes us a transformational system- in other words we are leading people into a transformational relationship with Christ. From Russel Crabtree's book Owl Sight; "Transformational systems have very different strategic and leadership needs. There positive morale and organizational capacities place a stewardship responsibility upon their shoulders: "From everyone who has been given much, much more will be asked" (Luke 12:48). As member satisfaction reaches 70 percent and energy reaches 85 percent, these churches cross a transformational threshold where strategic initiatives for mentoring, church planting, cataloguing of best practices and succession planning must be considered. I call this leadership style the fieldmarshal, because it requires optimizing a large array of strategic resources. while recovery churches are often seeking expertise, the expertise in transformational churches is often unconscious with in the system and leaders will need to bring their (the congregation) competence to consciousness before it can be shared.