That's pretty cool of LifeChurch. But, I wonder if alot of churches will find it useful, or if they already have systems of their own in place.

I'm honestly not trying to be a hater, I think LifeChurch continues to be innovative and I'm always loved how they share everything and make it simple. Here's my issue: A fundamental leadership principle is that you measure what you value. For the past 30 years, this is what we measure b/c these 4 stats are what we care about.

Isn't the problem that all of our mechanisms for measuring success revolve around measuring things that have nothing to do with how effective we are at making (that is an active very) disciples?

There seems to be a lot of useful metrics missing. For example, level of biblical education. How many Christians know much of scripture? That is an easy to measure thing.

There are a lot of things we should be measuring if we are going to go that route. I hope they add more things to the mix or this tool isn't all that useful.

We are a start up network church of LifeChurch.tv. If it wasn't for this free program we would have no way to measure or track these things at such a cheap (free) cost to us.
No, these measurements don't measure what is most important like the discipleship process, but I think it's somewhat laziness and uneducated to keep up with these things.
What's wrong with knowing your tithing trend? How about how many attend on Sundays? If your not knowing these things how can you see how God is growing things and see where He is taking you financially and in your attendance growth, etc...
All I am saying is that, No, it's not everything to us (salvation, spiritual growth and discipleship is) but it's very useful info.

There's still no way to track how many new guests attend a service. That's kind of a deal breaker for us at the moment.

Though, this is a great start in the right direction. Can't believe they are doing this at no cost.