Church Growth
"What am I doing wrong?!"
How many small church pastors constantly torture themselves with that question?
And it doesn't help that someone's always writing another list to tell us about the mistakes and sins we must be committing that are keeping our church from ...
A healthy church does not inevitably mean a numerically growing congregation.
I used to believe that it did.
After all, I've read about the "truth" of inevitable congregational growth in every church leadership book written in the last 30 years. I even taught it ...
Numbers are a great way for church leaders to gain objective information. They can help us quantify data, spot patterns and trends, and face harsh realities.
But information is not the same as truth.
Numbers can give us facts, but they can't give us truth. Yet, ironically, ...