If your ministry is about helping people reach their full potential, I have a favor to ask.
Leave me alone. Please. I’m not interested.
I’ve chosen to be a follower of Jesus. A disciple. Something I do imperfectly on my best days. But from the moment I chose do that, even poorly, I gave up ownership of my life.
I don’t want my best. I want God’s best. Because his ideas are different than mine. And his best is better.
Author
-
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.