Rural ministry is different. It has a slower pace, alternative ways of seeing metrics, and it utilizes unique tools to reach people.
In this conversation with Brad Roth we focus on those differences from the content from his new book, Flyover Church: How Jesus’ Ministry in Rural Places Is Good News Everywhere.
Topics include:
- How the rural church is different from the city and suburban church, not just in scale, but in type
- How metrics are very different in the rural church
- The lure of strategy
- The radically different pace of rural ministry
- And more
Brad is also the author of The Hunger Inside: How the Meal Jesus Gave Transforms Lives, and God’s Country: Faith, Hope, and the Future of the Rural Church.
Links from this Episode
- DoxologyProject.com
- Book: God’s Country: Faith, Hope, and the Future of the Rural Church
- Book: The Hunger Inside: How the Meal Jesus Gave Transforms Lives
- Book: Flyover Church: How Jesus’ Ministry in Rural Places Is Good News Everywhere
Bonus Content
One New Person: Toward An Authentic Metric For The Rural Church, with Brad Roth
An interview with Brad Roth about how and why metrics work very differently in rural churches than in urban and suburban churches.
As Brad wrote, “Most of us don’t need numbers to know whether our church is thriving. Numbers often stand in for intuition and attempt to substitute with a dashboard what can only be learned through years spent with a people in a place.”
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Veronica Beaver | [email protected]
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Phil Vaters | [email protected]
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Shelley Vaters | Shelley@KarlVaters.com
