Small Church Essentials, Karl Vaters
Small Church Essentials, Karl Vaters
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Small Church Essentials
Field-Tested Principles for Leading a Healthy Congregation of under 250

Author: Karl Vaters

Narrator: Karl Vaters

Unabridged: 6 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/30/2018


Synopsis

Do you lead a small church? Big churches get all the love. Articles, books, conferences—they mostly feature leaders of large congregations. Yet big churches are a small part of the ecclesial landscape. In fact, more than 90 percent of churches have fewer than 200 people. That means small churches play a big part in what God is doing.Small Church Essentials is for leaders of these smaller congregations. It encourages them to steward their role well, debunking myths about small churches while offering principles for leading a dynamic, healthy small church.Based on the popular six-hour lecture that Karl Vaters delivers to church leaders across the country, Small Church Essentials will affirm small church leaders and show them how to identify what they do well, and how to do it even better. Readers will: ·Be assured that leading a small congregation does not make them ministry failures ·Come away inspired to lead with passion, regardless the size of their church ·Have field-tested principles for leading a church in their context ·Possess new metrics for biblically measuring vitality in small churches ·Have a toolkit of resources to use in their everyday ministryKarl Vaters has been a small church pastor for 30 years, is the author of The Grasshopper Myth: Big Churches, Small Churches, and the Small Thinking that Divides Us (2013), and travels extensively to churches and conferences to speak about leading a small church well.If you are pastoring a small church, this book will be a breath of fresh air. It will affirm your calling while giving you fresh tools to help you lead. It will help you: ·Stop believing lies about small churches ·Lead your church to fulfill the role only small churches can ·Understand your congregation’s strengths and weaknesses ·Turn around a dying or unhealthy church ·Identify good trends and bad in church and culture

Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel

5 stars, not because I agree with everything in it, but because it is very thought provoking and encouraging, as well as being helpful in its specificity regarding small church ministry. I highly recommend this book for everyone in ministry at a smaller church.......more

Goodreads review by Sean

I am a big fan of Karl Vaters’ first book The Grasshopper Myth. So, when Moody publishers offered a free copy for review, I said: “sign me up!” Karl’s ministry of encouragement to small church pastors has saved me from despair more than once. He rightly recognizes that most church leadership resourc......more

Goodreads review by Isaac

My dad recommended this book to me. I enjoyed a fair amount of it. It’s central thread was wonderful, a small church does not mean a bad church, and the goal isn’t to become a mega church, but a healthy church. You could tell he truly believed in this vision for cultivating thriving churches rather......more

Goodreads review by Jimmy

Someone should have written this book a long time ago! We pastors of small churches often get our ideas from their wrong sources and evaluate ourselves by the wrong guidelines. Enter Karl Vaters, a pastor of a small church himself, to bring us back to a place of biblical and ministry sanity. Many of......more

Goodreads review by Kelly

Small Church Essentials: Field-Tested Principles for Leading a Healthy Congregation of Under 250 by Karl Vaters is written in a conversational manner. I found it interesting, intelligent, and engaging.  Our family attended a small church for eleven years, and we are currently attending another small......more