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What About Those Sheep-Stealing Megachurches?Megachurches keep getting bigger while small churches seem to struggle more than they used to. It's easy to think one is causing the other.
Karl Vaters
Megachurches keep getting bigger while small churches seem to struggle more than they used to. It's easy to think one is causing the other. Christian
Small Church Essentials Is Here!It’s not about wanting churches to be small; it’s about wanting small churches to be great.
Karl Vaters
It's not about wanting churches to be small; it's about wanting small churches to be great. Karl intro: This is a book about small churches. For small churches.
Why Most Mission Statements Fail In Smaller ChurchesIn a smaller church, instead of uniting people, a mission statement can feel controlling and manipulative.
Small churches? Not so much. Small Churches Are Bound By Relationship, Not Statements. In a small church – especially under 100 – a mission statement isn't needed as much.
Money And The Small Church: 3 Reasons We Must Talk About It (New Series)While having money is no guarantee of church success or health, poor money management will always undermine good ministry. We have to get better at this.
Karl Vaters
we have it and when we don't. I don't like how having too little or having too much of it changes churches, ministries and Yet it's just the way things are – especially in a small church.
Why Is It So Hard To Find Help To Pastor A Small Church Well?Scrambling for morsels of truth about healthy small churches can make you feel like a pig digging for truffles.
Karl Vaters
Scrambling for morsels of truth about healthy small churches can make you feel like a pig digging for truffles. Small Church MinistryMarch 09, 2018. Why
Why We Can’t Afford To Be Dismissive Toward Small ChurchesThe micro half of the body of Christ must be as fully encouraged, resourced and engaged as the macro half.
Karl Vaters
Church GrowthOctober 09, 2017. Why We Can't Afford To Be Dismissive Toward Small Churches Historically, 90 percent of churches have always been small.
Is Your Church Measuring Health Or Size? They’re Not The Same ThingIn the same way that a healthy elephant is bigger than a healthy rabbit, a church's size has nothing to do with its relative health – or relative value.
Karl Vaters
We hear what we expect to hear – that 100 pounds of bricks weighs more than 100 pounds of feathers, and that healthy big churches are better than healthy small churches.
The World's Best Small Churches What if every small church stopped worrying about getting bigger, and decided to be a great church starting right now?
Karl Vaters
Small Church MinistrySeptember 23, 2017. The World's Best Small Churches What if every small church stopped worrying about getting bigger, and decided to be a great church starting
The Modern Myth Of The Persistently Growing CongregationThe addition or multiplication of small congregations has always been the typical way the church has grown.
Karl Vaters
Constant numerical growth has never been the norm for healthy churches, historically. Instead, the addition or multiplication of small congregations has always been the typical way the
9 Ways to Reverse a Downward Giving TrendKarl Vaters
For most churches and pastors, poor stewardship is not a matter of extravagance, but of unseen waste. He's been a small church pastor for more than 30 years and is the author of Small