Church & Culture

Look for servants first. Find the people who are already helping before they’re asked.

The smaller the church, the more discipleship is caught through relationships than it’s taught through preaching.

The good news of Jesus never changes. But the way people receive that news is changing. Fast.

Lean away from the church-as-business model and into the church-as-relational-community model. Love God and love others.

Builders and Boomers had relationships and needed to build structures. NextGen have the structures and need to build relationships.

We need to stop seeing people as demographic groups and get to know them as individuals.

Virtually every lead pastor will pastor a small church. At least for a while. Usually longer than we expect. Let’s do it well.

You can tell a lot about a church by what they emphasize. Healthy churches have their priorities in place.

There’s a lot of variety in healthy small churches. But when it comes to unhealthy small churches, there are some surprising similarities.

Numbers are not the best way to measure church health and effectiveness, especially in smaller churches.