Marcel LeJeune on Fruitfulness

"When I was in college, I took several semesters of archery. I really loved shooting arrows at targets, but what ultimately won me over was the nature of archery; you immediately know your results, based on where you hit the target. Still, there was one time that I hit a bullseye, and I still scored a zero.. . . . because I was aiming at the wrong target! The problem is - too many Catholic parishes and dioceses are doing the same thing. Yet, they don't even know that they are aiming for the wrong thing and missing the right target. Then when questions arise about why the results they expected aren't happening, they are puzzled. 

"To further illustrate this problem, we need to understand that what we value, we measure and what we measure, we value. . . ."

In a recent Catholic Missionary Disciples commentary related to a quote by C. S. Lewis ("The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time."), writer Marcel LeJeune reflected on the importance of fruitfulness in ministry being named more often than numbered.

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Catholic Missionary Disciples: Fruitfulness Is Named More Than Numbered!