(Editor’s note: This post has had a significant update. It occurs in the final section.) It’s a moment that can only happen because of the internet. Yesterday I clicked on my RSS feed (a list of the blogs I monitor) and the first two headlines I saw struck me like a blow to the head. […]
The push to build bigger churches continues full steam ahead in many (maybe most) American denominations. In the past few weeks, I’ve received several cries for help from Small Church pastors because of the damage this push is causing. Today I’m posting two of those messages. One was a comment on this blog. The other was a
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It’s time for some BIG personal news! I’ve been invited to speak at the national minister’s conference in the country of Croatia on September 28 of this year, for a very special event. The official launch of Je Mit Grasshopper! The Grasshopper Myth is being translated into the Croatian language. If you’re wondering how this happened,
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It’s time for some BIG personal news! I’ve been invited to speak at the national minister’s conference in the country of Croatia on September 28 of this year, for a very special event. The official launch of Je Mit Grasshopper! The Grasshopper Myth is being translated into the Croatian language. If you’re wondering how this happened,
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Small Church pastors are unique, wonderful, passionate and gifted people. Last week I spent three days at a ministers’ conference where I had the great privilege to meet a whole bunch of them. The conference wasn’t just for Small Church pastors, but there were a lot of us in attendance. It was my first conference
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The evidence keeps piling up. Mondays can be very hard on Small Church pastors. This past Monday, I received one of the most truthful, passionately written expressions of pastoral pain that I’ve ever read. It was written by the wife of a Small Church pastor in the comment section following one of my most widely
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We live in an increasingly post-denominational world. I don’t know if that’s good or bad, it’s just the way things are now. Years ago, virtually every friend I had in ministry was within my own denomination. Every program my church used came from our denominational headquarters. The idea of ministering in any significant way outside
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Innovative ideas for Small Churches are everywhere. But that’s the problem. They’re everywhere, making them hard to track down and use. Every good idea I’ve ever had came from someone else. I want to use your ideas. And I want to share mine with you. So how do we pull the best ones together? That’s
The New Small Church Discussion Forum Has Arrived! Read More »
You give away a lot more than you realize when you’re on the internet. Now that I operate a website, I get to see some of those secrets. For instance, my website software shows me every search term that people use to find my blog. It’s fun and encouraging to discover that people have found
“Small Church Pastors Should Quit” and Other Monday Google Searches Read More »
Big churches are great. But they’re not built without a cost. And no one pays a higher price than the big church pastor. In a recent blog post, Ed Stetzer re-published the results of a 2011 survey taken by his ministry, Lifeway.com, in which he asked pastors what they felt about the ministry. His survey
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