When metrics get in the way of the thing(s) you want to measure
Last Thursday evening, my wife and I had the opportunity to attend a special meeting of CrossGlobal Link, The Mission Exchange, and the Evangelical Missiological Society/EMS. It was a dinner meeting held in honor of the lifetime achievements of my former boss and mentor Dr. Ralph Winter.
We stayed for an after-dinner panel discussion among four Christian leaders from the “Global South.”
At one point the panelist from Uganda noted, “It is said that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ But sometimes it is worth nothing at all. Or maybe it is worth less than nothing.”
This kind of perverse result occurs, he said, when, for example, a photograph becomes more important than the people who are being photographed.
He told a story to illustrate his point. Read the rest of this entry »
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