Hi, my name is Pete Scuzera. I want to welcome you today to the emotionally healthy

leader podcast. Our title for today is a new leadership scorecard for success, a new

leadership scorecard for success. And I want to talk about seven ways to measure

success and really oriented around seven key question. I've been thinking about this for quite some

time. And I've been asked by a number of you over the months, actually perhaps years, on what is a new leadership scorecard for success?

What might that look like?

So now again, none of these seven measurements I'm going to offer to you are about numbers.

And yet measuring biblical impact with numbers is biblical.

I mean, we have a whole book in the Bible called numbers.

We see the book of Acts

using numbers to describe the impact of the gospel, 3,000 being baptized, and then 5,000 believers

in Acts 4 and crowds coming to faith. And so, yes, movements and denominations measure numbers,

numbers in the church and baptisms and church plants and multi-sites,

etc. The problem is that when we're only about numbers and it becomes all that we measure,

it can easily become demonic and destructive. And we see that in David in his counting of the

fighting men in First Chronicles 21. and where he recognizes that he'd sinned

greatly by doing this, and he was looking for power and security in the wrong places and ended

up becoming idolatry. And so our culture, Western culture in particular, is very much

concerned post-enlightment about numbers, especially the last 50-plus

years in the church. We want bigger bank accounts and bigger influence and bigger platform, bigger homes,

bigger budgets, bigger staffs, bigger churches. And the logic is simple. If we're getting bigger,

we're doing well. We're succeeding. If we're not getting bigger, we're failing. But the logic is simple. If we're getting bigger, we're doing well. We're succeeding. If

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