Small Churches Are Not A Problem, A Virtue Or An Excuse
A local church doesn’t need to be big to do the Jesus stuff well. And the Jesus stuff is the only stuff that matters.
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Small Churches
What makes Small Churches unique?
The Essential Small Church (7 Reasons We’re Needed)
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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Simplify: How To De-Clutter Your Church for More Effective Ministry
The healthiest churches are relentless about being effective, not just busy. They trim off anything that saps time and energy.
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Small Church Finances: 4 Budgeting Lessons I Learned The Hard Way
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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Recruiting Volunteers In a Small Church
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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Quit Trying To Fix Your Church’s Ministries – Until You Do This First
Church health is not about making our current ministries better, it’s about doing better ministry.
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Pastoring A Small Church Is Not A Penalty, It’s A Specialty
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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Small Churches are Not a Problem, a Virtue or an Excuse
It’s not about big or small. It’s about big and small. The entire church is better with all of us than without any of us.
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The Small Church’s Biggest Need, Biggest Blessing, and Biggest Opportunity
The typical church has about 75 attendees every week. So if you pastor a small congregation, your church isn’t broken, it’s what’s known as normal. And normal doesn’t need to be fixed. But for the most part, the books, conferences and classes about pastoring tend to concentrate on big church principles, or on how to
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Saying “There’s Nothing Wrong With Small Churches” Is A Great Start, But It’s Not Enough
For the first time in my memory, many church growth writers and speakers are making sure to say “there’s nothing wrong with small churches” when they teach about church growth. This is good, and I’m grateful for that concession. Unfortunately, that’s what it is. A concession. That’s not enough any more.
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