Many of us measure the success of our church based on things like attendance, budgets or building size. We get focused on the wrong measure—an ungodly measure. Our congregations become consumers and we are vendors trying to tailor our church to match their tastes and whims. We start to compete against the church down the street by having cooler music and ear-tickling messages. God's measure of a successful church is one that is reaching the lost and making disciples.