With people attending church less frequently now, your average Sunday attendance represents a smaller percent of your “regulars” than ever before. This affects how we pastor them, and what they expect of the church, in ways we may not realize.
I talked about this with Chad Brooks, a co-vocational pastor, blogger at RevChadBrooks.com, and the host of the Productive Pastor podcast. The subjects we cover include:
- Why church size matters — but not in the way you think it does
- How to determine how many people you’re actually pastoring, since it’s changed a lot in the last couple years
- Why the main weekend service may no longer be the wide end of your church funnel anymore
Bonus Chat
The Moving Target of Small, Medium, and Large Churches — And Why It Matters
In this bonus content, I talk with Chad Brooks about three different ways of deciding whether your church is small, medium, or big, including some helpful information that Chad found from actually interviewing church members about it.
This is important to know because if one person thinks 100 is small, another thinks 100 is medium, and a third person thinks 100 is big, it will change what they do, how they learn, and what leadership principles they follow.
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Links from this Episode
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- Karl’s Twitter feed, with Chad’s comments
- RevChadBrooks.com
- What The Drop In Attendance Frequency Means For Pastors
- Declaring Church Size (and why it matters)
- No Silver Bullets (book)
- https://www.ihelppastorsgetjobs.com/
- Ryan Burge
- The Great DeChurching (book)
- https://substack.com/
- Ian Harber on Substack
- @revchadbrooks on Instagram
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