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5 Principles Megachurches Can Learn From Small Churches
Small Churches receive a lot from our megachurch friends. We read their books, sing their songs, use their curriculum and attend their seminars. And we’re grateful. But the benefits don’t have to flow only one way. There are some very important, though less obvious things that megachurches can learn from Small Churches. Not necessarily books
The Importance of Finding Your Church’s Unique Voice
What kind of culture does your church have? Are you a Willow Creek, or North Point church? Is your worship style more Hillsong, or Holy Trinity Brompton? Do you have an artsy, Mosaic vibe, a soulful, Brooklyn Tabernacle feel, or a structured, Saddleback system? For many years, people knew what to expect when they walked into
How to Quit Using a Discipleship System and Start Making Disciples
Does your Small Church have a discipleship system in place? Most don’t. Mine doesn’t. We used to. But we quit doing it years ago. It didn’t work for us. We were using a well-known discipleship curriculum from a megachurch, that we adapted to our Small Church. We did it because everybody – and I mean everybody!
5 Principles Small Churches Can Learn From Megachurches
Small Churches are not scaled-down versions of megachurches. We’re different, not just in size, but in methodology. A lot of what works in big churches just won’t work in smaller ones. And vice versa. But there are some overlapping principles. Starting with the scriptural fundamentals, of course. Over the years, I’ve noticed some principles that
Could Excellence Be Killing the Church?
“I left my Small Church because the quality of worship, programs and preaching wasn’t great. Then I came back to my Small Church because the quality of worship, programs and preaching in the megachurch was so high, it made me passive. “The big church didn’t need me. My Small Church does. And I need to be
Tired of the Show: Hollywood, the Church & the End of the Competition
There’s a growing concern that the church needs to do a better job than we’ve been doing, or we’ll lose the next generation. The good news is that this has been the concern of every generation, yet the church continues to live and thrive.
The bad news is we will lose this generation and the next one (at least) unless we do one thing.
Stop competing, and start doing the Bible stuff better.
“Small Church Pastors Should Quit” and Other Monday Google Searches
You give away a lot more than you realize when you’re on the internet. Now that I operate a website, I get to see some of those secrets. For instance, my website software shows me every search term that people use to find my blog. It’s fun and encouraging to discover that people have found
Alone In a Crowd – The High Price of Big Church
Big churches are great. But they’re not built without a cost. And no one pays a higher price than the big church pastor. In a recent blog post, Ed Stetzer re-published the results of a 2011 survey taken by his ministry, Lifeway.com, in which he asked pastors what they felt about the ministry. His survey
Only In a Small Church: Pink Flamingos, Jr. High Girls & the Pastor’s Office
On Tuesday morning there was a box of pink flamingos in my church office. On Tuesday night, there was a group of Jr. High girls in my church office. Tuesday morning made me smile a little. Tuesday night made me smile a lot. Both are examples of taking what could be a Small Church frustration
