Church Health Assessment Update

When he was about my age, my dad once commented that when he looked into the bathroom mirror, he wondered who that old man looking back was. I am sure my dad thought of himself as 25. Now this is my experience, too. This goes deeper still, there is the person I like to think of myself as, and then there is the person my wife experiences.

On Sunday, September 8, CMPC will get a look in the mirror as it receives the Church Health Assessment report in a COMBINED Worship Service at 10am in the Covenant Life Center (gym), followed by a church-wide meeting to present the findings from the Church Health Assessment.

The report is an assessment made by the members and leaders of CMPC. It is part of discerning what Jesus thinks about CMPC. This can be known, but it won’t come in a FedEx envelope. Jesus’ expectations for his church are laid out in the scriptures. When we ask God for insight into how well the church conforms to those expectations we are reflecting on and applying the scripture. The surveys that the congregation and leaders have taken serve just that end.

The assessment is essentially a CMPC self-assessment, gathered and summarized in the most helpful form possible. It reflects what a significant portion of the congregation thinks is the state of the church. The interviews that were conducted help explain what is behind much of what was revealed in the surveys. Pastor Rick and Matt’s contribution is primarily to offer some additional insight as to why this might be the case and make some recommendations as to what might be done to bring about greater obedience to Christ and conformity to his revealed will.

After the Town Hall meeting, each family unit that desires it will receive a written copy of the executive summary. I hope you will prayerfully come and be willing to look in the mirror at the picture of CMPC you collectively have drawn. James counsels us with these words: “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.” James 1:22-25