Chad and Jason unpack how churches often borrow business-style scorecards like attendance, giving, number of programs and then quietly use those numbers to compare, compete, and judge success. Instead, they argue that the most important ‘metric’ is transformation: real stories of people growing, healing, serving, and living on mission. Through a rural church case study and honest reflections on board expectations and pastoral pressure, they contrast transactional metrics with a transformational lens, inviting leaders to rethink how they define and measure impact in their own context.