Evaluating Worship

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From a participant

I am looking for help in setting up an evaluation of our worship contemporary worship service.

What are the key areas to evaluate? How often should an evaluation be conducted and who should do this beyond the pastor?

From Bill Easum

Randy, this is very subjective but I would offer the following

1. Evaluate if you are meeting your goals? If you dont have specific goals for that service it is hard to evaluate.  For instance, I would have at least the following goals: Number of adults being baptized; number of confessions of faith; is the service growing and is it growing as much as we planned? These would be the biggest areas to evaluate for me.

2. I would always evaluate the quality of the teaching, music, lights, flow, sound metaphor, video, and how the teams are working together.

3. I would involve as many of the regulars in leading worship as I could.

4. Most good to great churches I know evaluate every week, some in a formal staff meeting, and some in an informal fashion.. If all is okay, the evaluation won’t take long. If you run into problems, then it is time for another meeting following the staff meeting.