Archive for the 'Smaller Church Ministry' Category

The front or the back of the line?

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Eleanor and I were headed for a rare cup of coffee without the kids and during the five-minute drive, we encountered two different people who were angry over someone getting into the lane of traffic ahead of them.  Eleanor and I actually let a couple of people in and then found a great parking place!  [...]

Worship space decisions revisited

Monday, June 30th, 2008

In response to my earlier post about the difficulty of making space in a smaller church, Becky made this suggestion:
Have you thought of starting a new (small) church? I love the idea of small churches being so appealing that they multiply like bunnies.
It’s really a reasonable thing to think about too - a different model [...]

Small churches have a unique call

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

I had a wonderful opportunity to address pastors and elders from small churches at the Presbyterian Church’s biannual General Assembly on Monday.  I really do believe in the ministry of small churches.  By their definition, we are Trinity are now a medium-size church, but we’re still a lot smaller than many of the churches around [...]

Decisions, decisions!

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

The past couple of weeks, I’ve been troubled in my spirit…  Is that good Bible language for spiritually messed up?
Our church has experienced a lot of growth lately and we’re having growing pains.  That’s partly because our building is way too small.  It was built in a time when a) churches didn’t have parking lots [...]