What Are Your KPIs? — Kingdom Metrics

Let’s talk KPIs—Key Performance Indicators.

In most industries, if you’re not tracking KPIs, you’re flying blind. You might feel busy, but you have no idea if you’re effective. And yet, when it comes to church, some leaders still bristle at the idea of tracking anything. “We’re not a business,” they say. But let’s be real: churches aren’t businesses, but they are missions. And every mission needs a way to know if it’s actually doing what it set out to do.

Even the early church tracked their impact. Look at Acts. It doesn’t just say “people were encouraged.” It says:

“And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” – Acts 2:47

That’s a KPI. They tracked growth. Why? Because they weren’t guessing whether their mission was working—they were watching the fruit.

Church leaders today can’t afford to go by gut alone. If your mission is to make disciples, reach your community, or multiply leaders, how do you know it’s happening? How do you know if you’re growing, plateauing, or declining? If your only metric is “the room feels full,” that’s not leadership. That’s vibes.

At Kingdom Metrics, we believe that metrics aren’t about micromanaging—they’re about stewardship. You can’t steward what you don’t see. Attendance numbers matter, not because they define your success, but because they reveal your impact. They show you where the Spirit is moving and where more support might be needed.

So, here’s the question:
What are your KPIs?
What are you measuring to know your church is doing what God called it to do?

Because if you’re not measuring it, you’re not managing it—and if you’re not managing it, you might not be fulfilling your mission as fully as you could.

Let’s stop guessing.
Let’s start leading with clarity.

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