S5 Episode 5: The Scorecard (The Most Significant Battleground)
What if the greatest obstacle to disciple multiplication is not your preaching, your programs, or your people — but your scorecard?
In this episode of Breaking the Addition Addiction on The Disciples Made Podcast, Brian Phipps and Jason Phelps talk about one of the most important battlegrounds in the shift from addition to multiplication: what your church actually measures.
Every church already has a scorecard, whether it is visible or invisible. Attendance, budgets, activity, and visible momentum are not bad things to measure, but when they become the dominant measurements of success, they quietly train the culture to keep building addition systems.
Brian and Jason unpack why scorecards become emotionally powerful for leaders, how they shape what churches celebrate, and why multiplication will always get pushed to the edges if addition remains the master. They also introduce a better way to measure transformation through the Disciples Made framework: Character × Calling = Impact.
This conversation will help church leaders honestly examine what their current systems are rewarding and whether their metrics are aligned with the mission of Jesus.
Take the Disciple Multiplication Capacity Assessment in the show notes to begin seeing your church’s current reality more clearly: https://disciplesmade.com/assessment