Are You on Track if You Lead a Church of Fewer Than 100 People?

Every church leader and church planter desires ministry to be fruitful and to influence his or her community. But we need to be reminded that we can no longer depend on the success of the past to be the shelter of our future.

While leadership is important, a church’s size can change frequently, depending on other factors like changing demographics of the community or cultural shifts.

But how do we respond to the truth that the previous generation was much more numerically effective than we are? What do we do when people ask, “Why don’t you have the results they had before?”

Older members of any given church typically seem more nostalgic about the past and use that as a measure of success for the future. It is important to remember, however, that culture has changed in such a way that it becomes misleading in many places to expect the numerical success of the past for a new generation. Read More