Why Evaluate
- How can evaluations of our local congregation, our church organizations, our church officers and leaders help their performance?
- How does the Adventist church / your local congregation measure in execution of the gospel commission to (1) go into all the world (2) preach the gospel to every nation, (3) baptising them and (4) making them disciples?
Evaluate Kindly
- What is the difference between evaluation and criticism? How much do you desire evaluation of your performances in your workplace, your performance as a parent, as a spouse, as a friend, etc. Can criticism perform the same service?
- How can you evaluate a person without it seeming like criticism? In what ways would you like a person to correct you or to make suggestions for improvement
What the Lord Asks
- When Jesus addressed the Pharisees and Saducees was it evaluation or criticism? Are their times when criticism is in order?
- Can you explain the meaning of Deut 10:12, 13, "And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of the Lord an His statutes which I command you today for your good."
Evaluating for Spiritual Growth
- How do we understand the need to evaluate with the caution not to "judge" others?
- Since humans can see only the outside and not the heart, what does this mean in the context of evaluation?
- What effect does the "huge" number of people being baptized in our Division affect the spirituality of the church? What are the advantages and disadvantages of waiting till baptismal candidates are thoroughly prepared over a long period of time?
- What should we do with evaluation or criticism that comes to us?
