Church planting assessment

Why is assessment so important to the potential church planter? Lee Stephenson and Danny Parmelee discuss the need for church planting assessment, four types of assessment, what happens during the assessment process and how that process made them better church planters.
1:20 - Lee describes four popular ways to assess potential church planters

2:06 - What is an assessment center? What happens at an assessment center? Why is it necessary for a husband and wife to take part in the assessment center together?

5:38 - What are the possible recommendations that can come from an assessment center?

10:18 - What are behavioral interviews? What are the positives and negatives of relying on behavioral interviews as an assessment tool?

12:24 - What are the critical things you would want to learn from a behavioral interview?

17:17 - Why is self-assessment not enough?

18:11 - Lee talks about his experience being assessed as a potential church planter. God killed a vision and rebirthed another vision.

21:20 - Why Lee is an advocate for the assessment center process

22:02 - Lee talks about the importance of the objective nature of the assessment center.

24:12 - Danny remembers the difficulty and the reward of his and his wife's assessment experience.

27:14 - Lee shares about how seriously the assessors take their responsibility to give potential church planters an honest assessment

28:04 - Lee talks about reactions of people who got red light and used that as a springboard to life in ministry.