Ministry Match
The Ministry Match is a personal evaluation tool designed by Christians for Christians. The purpose of the Ministry Match is to help persons discover and understand how God uniquely created them and then to help them use this information to serve God in the most effective way possible. There are two versions of the Ministry Match. The Professional version was specially created to evaluate pastors, church staff and vocational Christian workers. The Lay version was specially written to help local church members find ministries in their own church that would be most fruitful and fulfilling. The ministry match, Church Matching Program was developed to equip local church staff as well as placement personnel in denominations and seminaries to easily match persons with specific ministries they have defined. The Ministry match is presently used by The Evangelical Free Church of America Placement Office, Trinity International University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and hundreds of pastors and churches across America.
Why Is The Ministry Match Needed?
God created humans with many different gifts, talents, values and other abilities. He created each one uniquely for a specific purpose (Eph.2:10). Unfortunately, most evaluation tools only look at one or two aspects of a person before “prescribing” a ministry. Additionally, very few evaluations have been developed from a perspective that use the Image of Christ as the standard of comparison. Finally, no evaluation tool with the above characteristics has developed “norms” for church staff. The Ministry Match was developed to evaluate Christians against the standard of Christ, using all of the most important elements in local church ministry, and includes norms for church staff.
What Does The Ministry Match Evaluate?
The Ministry Match evaluates seven major constructs of the Christian.
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TemperamentThis construct includes 16 bi-polar elements of temperament. Unlike most temperament tests, the Ministry allows the person to see both sides of each element- Also, only positive (Christlike) aspects are measured.
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Motivated RoleThis construct describes the piece of a process the person is most motivated to work in.
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Leadership StyleThis construct describes how the individual is equipped to best impact those around them.
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Participation styleThis construct describes how the individual functions in group decision making.
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Functional GiftsThis construct evaluates the individual’s gifts differentiating different leadership gifts, different teaching gifts, etc.
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ValuesThis construct evaluates the values and anti-values of the individual.
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Age PreferenceThis construct identifies the age group the individual best works with.
How Is The Professional Ministry Match Used?
The Professional Ministry match is used in the placement process for church staff. It is used by the individual to help them to understand themselves and define the ministry in which they will be most fruitful. It is used by churches looking for a new staff member to see if an individual has the qualifications to match their church. It is used by placement services to match individuals and. churches. It is used by church staff and leaders to evaluate present staff and board members and to "retrofit: a ministry position to better fit them. It is used by church consultants to do all of the above.
How Is The Lay Version Of The Ministry Match Used?
It is used by local church leaders to evaluate both lay leaders and all other church attenders in their church in order to help each person find the ministry in which they will be most fulfilled and fruitful.
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