“What are you improving at your church right now?”
If you can’t answer that question with at least one specific goal-oriented project, your church may be in trouble without even knowing it.
Every church should constantly be improving. And not just in general terms. We should always be working on specific action plans to improve aspects of our church and its ministry. Improving anything that we’re not doing as well as we could or should.
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Karl produces resources for Helping Small Churches Thrive at KarlVaters.com.
He's the author of four books on church leadership. His fifth book, De-Sizing the Church: How Church Growth Became a Science, Then an Obsession, and What's Next, releases on April 2, 2024.
He also hosts a bi-weekly podcast,The Church Lobby: Conversations on Faith & Ministry. Episodes feature in-depth interviews about the topics that concern pastors, especially those who minister in a small church context.
Karl has served in small-church ministry for over 40 years, so he speaks and writes from decades of hands-on pastoral experience. He and his wife, Shelley have three children and two grandkids.