7 Small Church Choices that Will Strengthen Your Ministry

Small churches don't need to act like big churches to become better churches. We need to make better small church choices. After my last post, Want Your Small Church to Be Great? Make Good Small Church Choices, many readers wanted to know what good small church choices look like. Here are seven examples of choices that make sense in most small church contexts:

December 7, 2015

by Karl Vaters

Small churches don’t need to make big church choices in order to become great churches.

We need to make better small church choices.

Here are seven examples of choices that work in most small church contexts:

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Karl Vaters

Karl produces resources for Helping Small Churches Thrive at KarlVaters.com.
He's the author of five books on church leadership, including his newest, De-Sizing the Church: How Church Growth Became a Science, Then an Obsession, and What's Next. His other books include The Grasshopper Myth and Small Church Essentials.
Karl also hosts a bi-weekly podcast,The Church Lobby: Conversations on Faith & Ministry, featuring in-depth interviews about topics that concern pastors, especially those who minister in a small church context.
Karl has served in small-church ministry for over 40 years, so he speaks and writes from decades of hands-on pastoral experience. He and his wife, Shelley have three children and two grandkids.

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