Episode 41 features an interview with Karl Vaters. Karl writes and speaks about leadership in the small church, including his own blog, and a Christianity Today blog called Pivot. He is the author of a Small Church Essentials: Field-Tested Principles for Leading a Healthy Congregation of under 250 and  The Grasshopper Myth: Big Churches, Small Churches and the Small Thinking that Divides Us and is the pastor of Cornerstone Christian Fellowship in Fountain Valley, California.

 

SOME OF WHAT WE TALK ABOUT:

• Why focus on small churches?


• What does it mean to be a healthy small church?


• Over 80% of churches are small churches (under 200 people)


• Over half of Christians are part of small churches - that is over 1 billion people.


• Why is there not more material directed toward or produced by small churches and small church leadership?


• What are the possibilities for spiritual practices that exist in a small church that may not be present in a larger church?


• Being forced to deal with conflict and how working it through provides greater health and healing.


• The beauty of multiple generations being church together.


• Why “online” church is church, but is not enough church.


• The changing landscape of culture, church, and spirituality.


• Taking time for prayer, Bible reading, and slowing down.


• What does it look like to slow down and notice the presence of God?


• Finding your own rhythm, and the best time for prayer or devotional.

LINKS AND RESOURCES:

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


• 
  The Grasshopper Myth: Big Churches, Small Churches and the Small Thinking that Divides Us by Karl Vaters
  


• 
  New Small Church
  


• 
  Pivot: Innovative Leadership from a Small Church Perspective
  


• 
  200 Churches Podcast
  

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