Small Church Essentials
Most pastors serve in a small church. Even big-church pastors will probably serve in a small church at some point in their ministries. And yet small churches — and by extension, small church
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Identifying an Anemic Church
I wrote about anemic churches last week. A couple of commenters asked me to explain how to identify whether a church is anemic or not. Here’s my best shot.
You can tell
The Anemic Church
Some churches are built on a foundation of entertainment and relevance. They need good pastors to go in and love them and feed them.
It’s not their fault, at least not entirely.
Missiology Before Ecclesiology? Not so Fast!
It’s become fashionable to say that we need to put our missiology (the mandate, mission, and message of the church) before our ecclesiology (our theology and practice of the church), and that
The Glorious Inefficiency of Church
I attended a Members Meeting at Capitol Hill Baptist Church last year. It’s a church of over a thousand people, which means that things must be run efficiently. Except…
During the meeting,