How are The Lay And Professional Versions Different?

The Professional version was created to use to:

  1)

Discover the ministry abilities of professional staff members - pastors, associates, worship leaders, seminary and denominational staff.

  2) Help these assess their "fit" in ministry.
  3) Help them retro-fit their jobs to better fit themselves.
  4) Help them understand other staff and work together better.
  5) Help candidates and churches match up in placement.

The Lay Ministry Match was created to use to:

  1)

Discover the ministry abilities of normal church members.

  2) Help regular members assess ministry abilities and find the "best fit" for ministry in a church.
  3) Help assimilation pastors find the best persons to work in specific ministries.

Similarities of these two tools

  1)

Both measure the same issues.

  2) Both have the same number of questions.
  3) The definitions of issues are identical.
  4) The printout report looks identical.

Differences between these tools

  1)

Question wording is different for each tool.

  2) Norms are different for each tool.
  3) The price is different for each tool.