Specimen
A sample report.
Drafted for Redemption Hill from five vocational reports. Yours will be computed from the 5Qs your team attaches. Not Alan Hirsch. Not a word from God.
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SPECIMEN · Redemption Hill Church
The team as a body
Five people, well above average in two functions and below average in three.
COMPUTEDPopulation mean · team mean out of 50 · hatched = materially below population
Total capacity
127.8vs 124.0 exp.
Range
17.6pts
S in combinations
5of 5
Generalists
0of 5
Coverage and absence
Apostle
ABSENT
16.6 −4.4
0 in top two
Prophet
PRESENT
22.8 −0.2
1 in top two
Evangelist
PRESENT
21.6 −3.4
1 in top two
Shepherd
STRONG
34.2 +7.2
5 in top two
Teacher
STRONG
32.6 +4.6
3 in top two
No one on this team is oriented outward.
Apostolic function is absent — not merely low. Nobody holds it in their top two, and the team mean of 16.6 sits 4.4 points below the population average of 21. This is a team with no one whose instinct is to ask what exists beyond the current boundary of the congregation. Teams in this position are usually unaware of it, because the absence produces no complaint. Nothing feels wrong. The work simply stays inside the walls it already has.
Evangelistic function is also below the population norm, at 21.6 against 25, and it is present in exactly one person. Between them, the two outward-facing functions are the team's two weakest relative to everyone else who has taken this test.
Prophetic function sits almost exactly at the population mean, carried entirely by Hank. A single prophetic voice on a five-person team is structurally fragile: when that voice is absent from a meeting, the function is absent from the decision. When it is present, it is easy to hear as one man's temperament rather than as a necessary capacity.
Shepherding and teaching are genuinely strong, 7.2 and 4.6 points above the population respectively, and that is worth naming before anything else. A congregation under this leadership is likely to be well-loved and well-taught. The team's total capacity is above average. The problem is not how much this team has. It is how narrowly it is distributed.
What this pattern produces
INTERPRETED · frozen specimen copyPut together, this is a team built to hold what it already has.
It teaches well and cares deeply, both measurably above the norm, and it will protect the people already inside it with real skill. Those are not small things and a great many churches would trade for them.
What it does not have is anyone whose first instinct is the outside. Apostolic function is absent and below average. Evangelistic function is below average and exists in one volunteer with no authority. The prophetic voice that might name the drift is carried alone by the longest-tenured person in the room, whose own assessment is three years old.
The failure mode is not decline. It is a slow, comfortable, well-taught, well-shepherded contraction that no one in the room is positioned to notice, because noticing is the job of the two functions that are missing.