And a one and a seventy-two
Saturday, September 30, 2017
Recently, a pastor told of a survey given to the members of a parish he once served which was an instrument designed to evaluate the congregation’s various ministries. The assessment also included a self-evaluation of the members themselves and as well as of each other. All questions in the five-page survey were on a rating system. The pastor said that the members who evaluated themselves with a “5”, the best, tend to rate others with a “1” the lowest. The pastor knew the members who gave themselves “5”s and said that most of them were more like “1”s. He highlighted one member named Ethel, whom he thought was a “5”, humble, joyful, always doing for others. She rated herself as a “1” and refused to evaluate anyone else.