Why Current Church Trends Mean Very Little In Smaller Churches

Small church ministry isn’t about following trends, it’s about knowing people.

In a couple recent articles, I wrote about current trends in church worship music. (You can read them here and here.)

If you worship or serve in a smaller church, you may have read those articles and shrugged, or maybe you saw the titles and didn’t even bother to read them.

I don’t blame you.

While our brothers and sisters in bigger churches look for trends, compare notes and learn from the latest innovations, small churches usually let those trends pass us by without a ripple.

It’s not because small churches don’t care, it’s because current trends almost never apply in smaller churches the way they do in bigger ones.

Here’s why.... Read More