Karl Vaters is a small church pastor, author of The Grasshopper Myth, and blogger for Christianity Today on the subject of small churches Pivot: A Blog by Karl Vaters where he encourages, connects, and equips innovative small church leaders.
What does a healthy Small Church look like? It looks like a healthy big church – in all the ways that matter, anyway.
No, a healthy Small Church is not just a miniaturized version of a healthy big church. Pastors who try to do that are usually concentrating on the externals. And it never works out well when we do that.
Promoting church events used to be expensive. Even half-price ads on the newspaper church page, which not even the church people read, takes a chunk...