Tony Morgan, Church Growth and the Small Thinking that Shouldn’t Divide Us
Yesterday I got frustrated while reading Tony Morgan’s latest blog post.
But it wasn’t Tony’s fault.
Tony Morgan is the founder of The Unstuck Group and he’s starting a new series on growth strategies for churches of different sizes.
In the first sentence, he warned his readers that “several of you probably aren’t going to like this series of articles.” Why? Because “the Unstuck Group wants to help churches get healthy and grow. The fact that I’m going to write about strategies to help grow your church, though, will certainly offend some people.”
As soon as I read that, I got mad. Not at Tony, but at a toxic environment that makes it necessary for him to spend most of this initial blog post preempting the opposition he will inevitably receive simply for writing about church growth.
As a supporter and encourager of healthy small churches, I wasn’t frustrated that Tony will be writing about church growth. I was frustrated that he felt the need to defend himself over it.
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