Church Growth
The push to build bigger churches continues full steam ahead.
I regularly get cries for help from small church pastors because of the damage this push is causing.
Today I’m posting two of them.
Because of the personal nature of these messages, I’ve left the names off. ...
I don’t want to pile on. Honest I don’t. So I pray this post doesn’t come across that way.
I was sad when I read the news about Perry Noble being asked to step down from NewSpring church this past weekend. I still am. (If you haven’t heard about it, catch ...
What are we going to do about all those struggling small churches?
That question has been the subject of endless hand-wringing in the last several decades. A lot of time and money has been invested in conversations, books, seminars and classes attempting to fix this problem.
Struggling ...
In case you were wondering, church growth is a good thing.
Because of The Grasshopper Myth and this blog, I’ve had so many conversations that range from fantastic to heartbreaking in the last few years. I’ve met and heard stories from hundreds of small church pastors ...
“If it’s okay for a church to be small, how do you suggest we measure a church’s success?”
Since I’ve begin ministering to small churches, I’ve been asked that question more than any other. Maybe more than all other questions combined
At first ...
Church growth is an essential element in the Great Commission. But bigger churches are not.
This is not an anti-big-church rant. I love big churches. They're great. They're like padded seats, air conditioning and microphones. They can all be valuable tools, but they’re ...
Jesus never told us to make bigger churches.
He told us to make disciples.
When disciples and disciple-makers get together, they create healthy churches.
But sometimes we put more energy into making churches bigger than making churches healthier. Usually because of an agenda that ...
Why won’t my church grow!
Have you ever wondered that? Me too.
After all, it’s not like we haven’t tried. And there are plenty of people offering us seemingly surefire help to bring growth. Every day there’s another blog post with a list of Seven Reasons ...
Megachurches, we’re with you.
You’re our brothers and sisters in Christ. Our partners in ministry.
We know that the task of reaching our communities, nations, cultures and world is an enormous one. And an enormously important one. We don’t expect you to do it ...
I want my church to grow.
I want your church to grow.
But more than anything, I want The Church to grow.
I want as many people as possible, all over the world, to know Jesus.
The good news of the gospel can’t be confined within the walls of my church, the distinctives of my ...