The Strengths of Smaller Healthy Churches
Small churches can create a family environment for disconnected people if they lean into the built-in intimacy they already have.
Small churches can create a family environment for disconnected people if they lean into the built-in intimacy they already have.
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.
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.
The God who bled for you, who died for you, who rose from the dead for you, and who now lives in you through the Holy Spirit, believes in you.
A church with mission-shaped people living together for the gospel makes the Korean megachurch phenomenon clear.
A recent Small Town Summits event at Gordon Conwell indicates that small town ministry is alive and well.
If we are simply getting bigger churches, that’s not church growth; that’s Christian consolidation. De-size the Church mindset reframes growth toward health.
The church can leverage the Kintsugi Model to review the community's needs and begin to capture one element that it could do to help the community become healthier.
Leverage your advantages to reach your community.
The community outside the church's walls needs a Bible-teaching church as much as the church needs a community that is invested in what it offers, a path to church revitalization.