Read These First – The Essentials
There’s a lot going on in Small Churches, and in the ministry of New Small Church. So, if you’re wondering where to start, this preview of essential posts will give you a good idea of what we’re about. And what we’re not about.
Scan the titles and excerpts, then click to read more. They’re listed by the order they were written, but each one stands on its own, so you can read them in any order you’d like.
Scan the titles and excerpts, then click to read more. They’re listed by the order they were written, but each one stands on its own, so you can read them in any order you’d like.
Small doesn't mean cheap, shoddy, lazy or low-quality. At least it shouldn't.
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Some people have written off the current generation spiritually.
That is a mistake – for the church and for the millennials.
There's growing evidence that this new generation will bring the greatest opportunity for small church ministry in 2,000 years.
Why? Because, as ...
Many churches don't grow beyond a certain size no matter how healthy they become
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A healthy church does not inevitably mean a numerically growing congregation.
I used to believe that it did.
After all, I've read about the "truth" of inevitable congregational growth in every church leadership book written in the last 30 years. I even taught it ...
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Small Church Essentials: Field-Tested Principles for Leading a Healthy Congregation of under 250
Moody PublishersMarch 6, 2018256 pp., 13.99