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How to Tell If a Small Church Is Strategic or Stuck
If your church is small because you’re equipping people who worship and minister best within a smaller setting, you’re not stuck, you’re strategic.
Bible Reading Coach, Week 29 (Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Isaiah 1-11) Sorrow, Sex, and Wisdom
This week’s reading might give you whiplash if you go in unprepared, so this episode will help you get ready.
When “Can’t Miss” Church Growth Answers Don’t Work, with Cory Hartman (Podcast Ep 029)
Karl Vaters interviews Cory Hartman about church growth, health, and what happened when sure-fire answers misfired for him and the church he served.
Bible Reading Coach, Week 28 (Proverbs) Small Bits of Big Wisdom
The book of Proverbs is one of the great mountain peaks of scripture. It has so many nuggets of wisdom that it needs to be read slowly and deliberately.
Has The Church Gone Soft? (I Wish)
Hardness is universally condemned in the Bible, while softness is applauded and encouraged.
Bible Reading Coach, Week 27 (Psalms 107-150) Who Wrote the Psalms?
As we start the last half of the Bible, we’ll wrap up our look at the great hymnbook of the Psalms.
Why God Deserves Our Second Best
Sometimes it’s the lack of technical excellence when we offer our second best that creates space for creativity, innovation and passion to grow.
Bible Reading Coach, Week 26 (Psalms 73-106) We’re All Gods? What?!
You know the notes at the start of some Psalms, like “For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm of David.”? We’ll talk about them, too.
Ending Human Trafficking, with Dr. Sandra Morgan (Podcast Ep 028)
Karl Vaters interviews Dr. Sandra Morgan about how healthy churches are ideally suited to aid in ending the scourge of human tafficking.
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Karl Vaters produces resources for Helping Small Churches Thrive at KarlVaters.com.
He's the author of five books on church leadership, including his newest, De-Sizing the Church: How Church Growth Became a Science, Then an Obsession, and What's Next. His other books include The Grasshopper Myth and Small Church Essentials.
Karl also hosts a bi-weekly podcast, The Church Lobby: Conversations on Faith & Ministry, featuring in-depth interviews about topics that concern pastors, especially those who minister in a small church context. He has served in small-church ministry for over 40 years, so he speaks and writes from decades of hands-on pastoral experience.
You can follow Karl on Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, and LinkedIn, or Contact Karl to inquire about speaking, writing, and consultation.
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