Prairie Hills Covenant Church

There are so many ways to define success. In business, success can be determined by profits, but can also be measured by customer satisfaction, employee well-being, or social impact. In parenting, success can be navigating a meltdown, or negotiating peace between siblings. In friendships, success can be keeping the relationship intact in the midst of a disagreement. Churches have often struggled with defining success. In recent decades, American churches defined success in terms of the “Three B’s,” budgets, bodies, and buildings. If a church had a growing budget, more bodies attending, and plans for building; it was successful. It has become increasingly clear that these are not meaningful ways to determine if a church is successful. A church’s success can’t be determined by financial growth or increased attendance, because a church doesn’t exist for the purpose of numeric growth or profit. A church exists for the purpose of faithfulness. As Covenant churches and denominational leaders have wrestled with thi