The Small Church's Biggest Need, Biggest Blessing, and Biggest Opportunity

There is a role for churches of all sizes. Big churches meet some needs, small churches meet other needs.

The typical church has about 75 attendees every week.

So if you pastor a small congregation, your church isn’t broken, it’s what’s known as normal. And normal doesn’t need to be fixed.

But for the most part, the books, conferences and classes about pastoring tend to concentrate on big church principles, or on how to help the smaller churches become bigger.

That’s not a bad thing, in fact it’s expected, since we all want to learn from those with growing ministries.

But when those are our only sources, we can miss a valuable aspect of church life – the vibrant, healthy small church. Read More