One person.
One church.
One network.
Next Step Analytics® turns honest assessments into personal next steps, churchwide insight, and shared learning across networks, while helping people and leaders see what changes over time. Because we can’t disciple what we can’t see.
The platform, at three levels.
Next Step Analytics® turns one person’s honest assessment into insight for their church and their network. This page walks through all three, one level at a time.
- 01One personSarah takes an eight-minute assessment and receives a personalized report with next steps chosen by her church.
- 02One churchAnonymous responses combine into a churchwide report showing patterns, program impact, and change over time.
- 03One networkParticipating churches join a Circle to compare results, learn from one another, and act together.
Sarah wants to grow closer to Jesus.
She just isn't sure what her next step should be. Then her church gives her an assessment.
The assessment takes Sarah eight simple minutes on her phone.
Sarah answers questions about her faith and everyday life, with her progress clearly marked along the way. Her responses remain private, allowing her to answer honestly.
No login required. She simply scans a QR code and opens an assessment branded for the church she already knows and trusts.
Adult Discipleship Assessment
Whether you're new, or established: discover where you are and take your next steps with Jesus.
Sarah receives a personalized report showing her discipleship clearly.
Moments after completing the assessment, Sarah receives a personal report showing her results across nine discipleship measures. She sees her faith's trajectory, areas of strength, and the two areas where she'll benefit most from taking a next step.
Clear enough to act on. Private enough to be honest.
Her report connects her to next steps chosen by her church.
Sarah's report identifies her two lowest-scoring areas and connects her with three resources for each, selected by her church. Those may include practices, books, courses, ministries, or other next steps the church believes will serve her well.
For the Discipleship Assessment, churches can provide different resources for beginning and more advanced participants. Sarah is not simply shown where she is. She is equipped to take a next step that fits where she is.
Different resources can be offered to beginner and more advanced participants.
Each church chooses the resources that appear.
Every time Sarah returns, she can see what has changed.
Each time she retakes the assessment, her new report compares her results with her previous ones. She can see where her scores have changed, where they have remained consistent, and where she may want to continue growing.
Her results, compared over time.
Sarah's individual report remains private. Her church never sees her personal results. Instead, leaders see anonymous, aggregate patterns across the congregation, allowing them to understand the people they serve.
Sarah isn't the only one taking that honest step. Other people across her congregation are answering the same questions. When those private responses come together, a clearer picture of the church becomes visible.
Her church can lead with greater clarity.
Leaders can direct their attention, energy, and resources toward what their congregation is actually experiencing.
Individual responses come together into one clear picture of the church.
The churchwide report brings anonymous responses together so leaders can see the congregation's overall discipleship health, its results across all nine measures, and the patterns beneath those scores.
Leaders see the patterns and decide how to respond.
Insight like this sharpens ministry decisions.
In this graph, each dot represents one person's Bible reading and understanding. This and others like it show leaders what they couldn't see before. And that leads to better questions about preaching, classes, groups, and other discipleship efforts.
Throughout the report, leaders can identify patterns, ask better questions, and make more informed decisions about how to serve their congregation.
See which programs work. Improve what doesn't.
Each church can customize the assessment's engagement question with its own ministries and programs. The report then compares the results of people who participated with those who did not, across every measure.
When results are available across multiple time periods, Matched Responses allows leaders to examine change among the same participants over time. It also allows them to see what change programs are producing in people - measuring not just program attendance, but program effectiveness.
Differences between participants and non-participants can reveal promising patterns or raise questions worth exploring. The data does not make the decision for leaders; it better informs them for the conversation.
See how the congregation changes over time.
Leaders can select up to three date ranges and compare results throughout the report. They can examine the congregation before and after a sermon series, ministry initiative, or season of focused effort to see what changed, and what did not.
The report provides more than charts. Leadership Discussion Questions help teams consider what they notice, how they interpret it, what they need to discern, and how they may want to respond.
Her church isn't asking these questions alone. Across the network, other congregations are asking similar questions and learning about their own people. What could they learn from one another?
Churches together can see what no church sees alone.
Through Circles, anonymous aggregate results from participating churches create a shared picture of health across a network, and an opportunity for churches to learn together over time.
Participating churches combine into one shared picture.
With each church's permission, its anonymous aggregate results are included in the Circle. No individual's responses are exposed, while every participating church contributes to a picture none of them could build alone.
Circles can serve church networks, denominations, regional initiatives, and multisite churches.
Compare churches, groups, and seasons side by side.
Network leaders can compare a participating church with the Circle, compare groups or churches with one another, or compare results across different time periods.
Those differences create questions worth asking. When one church is especially strong in an area, others may have something to learn. Where needs appear, network leaders can consider how to provide support.
Compare what ministries produce, church to church.
Network leaders can compare the same program across congregations or view different programs side by side, looking at the difference between participants and non-participants within each church. When that difference is much larger in one church, it points to a conversation worth having: What are they doing differently, and what might others learn?
See where the difference appears. A program may stand out in some areas while showing little movement in others. Comparing results measure by measure gives leaders a more specific picture than a single overall score.
Non-participant results provide context within each church, helping leaders compare program patterns rather than participant scores alone.
Networks turn shared insight into wiser action.
The shared picture helps network leaders see where churches can learn from one another and where additional support may be helpful.
Understand where health is strong across the network and where needs appear most consistently.
When one church is especially strong in an area, connect its leaders with others who may benefit from what they have learned.
Use shared data to focus training, funding, and support where they may be most useful.
Compare results before, during, and after a network-wide initiative to understand what changed across participating churches.
The goal is simple: understand how discipleship is taking shape across the network and identify where churches can learn from one another as they help people follow Jesus.
Built for discipleship and for marriage and relational health.
The same core capabilities support both assessments: personal reports, tailored resources, churchwide insight, program analysis, longitudinal comparison, and Circles.
Adult Discipleship Assessment
Designed for people at every stage of faith, from those exploring Jesus to those who have followed Him for years. Each participant receives a personalized report showing their faith's trajectory and scores drawn from nine discipleship measures, tailored to where they are in their journey. The report highlights strengths and growth areas, provides practical next steps, and shows change over time. Churches can even offer different resources for beginner and more advanced participants.
Marriage & Relational Health Assessment
Provides distinct paths for married and non-married participants. Married participants receive a personalized report showing overall Marital Satisfaction and Commitment scores, while non-married participants see Relational Satisfaction and Loneliness. Each report scores the dimensions for its path, highlights strengths and growth areas, provides practical next steps, and shows change over time.
Circle accounts are free for network leaders, launched in partnership with our team.
A five-minute platform walkthrough.
See the experience from each perspective: a person taking an assessment and receiving a personal report, a church learning from aggregate and longitudinal data, and a network viewing shared insight across participating churches.
Every number on this page began with one person taking one honest step.
Next Step Analytics® helps that person understand where they are, helps their church respond with greater clarity, and helps churches learn from one another over time.