Small Church

Lebanon Baptist Church: A Sweet Way to Serve

Churches seem to have an expectation that people need to come to us. We need to change that paradigm.

Brandon O’Brien’s Top Books on Small Church Ministry

Rather than being a subcategory of American ministry, the small church is the norm. If you take a longer and broader view, most churches throughout history and in most parts of the world are and always have been small.

Star City First Assembly of God: Start With Jerusalem

The church looked around and assessed local need. One of its biggest outreaches is now a community-wide distribution of food, clothes, shoes, backpacks, school supplies and other household items at back-to-school time.

3 Big Mistakes to Avoid This Easter

"Let’s be candid: Merely extending an invitation to come back to church the following weekend is not enough."

How to Keep Your Church’s Message From Becoming White Noise

"Let’s communicate creatively so that our initiatives to expose people to the gospel do not become white noise."

What Happens When a Small Church Begins to Grow?

"I learned that small churches that begin to really reach out with the gospel would discover that their desires are at war."

3 Steps to a More Welcoming Youth Ministry

"Here are a few questions you should ask yourself about the 'welcome' feel of your youth ministry."

The One Church Strategy That Always Works

“Consider planting and building communities on mission, and let God build his church.”

5 Reasons Some Churches Never Grow

"Biblical membership is not about getting our perks, privileges and preferences. It’s about sacrificing self for the gospel."

Tradition or Sacred Cow? Rethinking How We ‘Do Church’

"Do not make the way you do church a doctrine. Make Christ’s doctrine the way you do church."

How a Vision for Multiplication Changes You and Your Church

“A clear vision gives us a filter through which we can run every idea, opportunity and decision.”