When it comes to pastoral ministry, I’ve discovered an interesting (and sometimes frustrating) paradox.
The more I care for people, the less concern I have for increasing the size of the crowd – while the more I work to increase the size of the crowd, the less caring my ministry becomes.
Does anyone else in pastoral ministry find that to be true for you?
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There’s no reason to believe that a healthy small church is making more mistakes than a healthy big church.
Trying to imitate a big church is lame. Yes, lame. There’s a better way forward.
Pastors, we need to hear this. No one who is staying away from the church is waiting for us to put on a better event.
