5 Ways To Make The Most Of This Small Church Moment
Right now may be the best time lead, minister, worship and fellowship in a healthy small church.
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What makes Small Churches unique?
Right now may be the best time lead, minister, worship and fellowship in a healthy small church.
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Work for numerical growth. But don’t put so much energy into a hoped-for future that you shortchange your right-now life and ministry.
Yes, I Want Our Small Congregation To Grow – But . . . Read More »
Since the day of Pentecost, thriving small churches have been the way the majority of Christians have done church. They’ve just stayed under the radar for 2,000 years. Now may be their turn to come out of the shadows.
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Great small churches can change the world. Are you ready for your church to be great? You don’t need to wait. Greatness can start today.
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We can and must appreciate what each church does well, without creating any sense that one size of congregation is better than another size of congregation.
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Money isn’t the goal of ministry. But it is a tool – and an important one. When we manage our money well, we can do better ministry with it.
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Intentional mentoring is a great way to expand your church’s capacity for effective ministry and fulfill our mandate to make disciples and equip God’s people.
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Church health is not about making our current ministries better, it’s about doing better ministry.
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For years I bucked against the idea that I am a small church pastor. Instead of seeing it as my calling, my heart and my passion, I treated it like it was my penalty for not having the skills to be a big church pastor. So I consumed every church growth book and devoured all
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In my last post I gave you 5 Bad Reasons To Go To a Small Church.
But there are some great reasons to go to a Small Church, too.
Some people wonder if there’s ever a reason to go to a Small Church. After all, if they’re small, they must be doing something wrong, right?
Wrong.
There are a lot of great Small Churches in the world, and a lot of great reasons to worship, minister and fellowship in one. Here are 5 of them.
This is the second in a series of four posts on both bad and good reasons to want to go to a small or big church. (Scroll down to see the previous and upcoming post titles.)
1. Because It’s Where My Gifts Can Flourish
Some people’s ministry gifts aren’t suited to a big church.
It’s not because they’re gifts are lesser, they’re just more usable in a smaller setting. If God can use your gifts better in a Small Church than a big church, go to a Small Church. Which leads us to…
2. Because They Can Really Use You
Big churches usually have little problem finding help – both paid and unpaid.
But there are many Small Churches all over the world that are desperate for people who are willing to help wherever they can. I hear this cry from Small Church pastors all the time. People visit, maybe even a few times. They say they like the church, the people, the preaching, but they leave because “you don’t have such-and-such a ministry”. To which we want to scream “then stick around and help us start such-and-such a ministry!”
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