Preparing a good sermon for 50 people takes just as much work as preparing a good sermon for 5,000.
Many other pastoral tasks are just as hard to do in a Small Church as in a big one. Some are harder. Some are easier.
By the time they’re all added up and balanced out, the skills and gifts needed to pastor a church of 5,000 are very different and much less common than the skills and gifts needed to pastor a church of 50. But the output of time, emotion and energy are probably about the same.
The material rewards, on the other hand, are very different. Keep reading
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