Helping pastors by helping small churches thrive. Author of De-Sizing the Church, The Grasshopper Myth, Small Church Essentials, and more. Pastor for 40 years.
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Day 2681
Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. (2 Timothy 2:23)
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Where are the Christian innovators who will put a dangerous passion for Jesus ahead of personal ministry success?
karlvaters.com/outcasts/
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Jun 14
We gave church growth principles a forty-year test drive. Some good things – and churches – have come from it. And some not so good.
What if we gave church health principles the next forty years? I say we give it a shot.
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Jun 14
Day 2680
Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. (2 Timothy 2:23)
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Jun 13
Churches need weekly helpers and steady givers. But getting people involved in a way that suits their new schedules and answers their trust issues is how we get that snowball rolling.
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Jun 13
Day 2679
Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. (2 Timothy 2:23)
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Jun 12
We must always see our teaching through the lens of doing. We must always gauge the effectiveness of our teaching, not by what people learn, but by how people’s lives are changed by it.
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Jun 12
Day 2678
Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. (2 Timothy 2:23)
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Jun 11
Older ministers need to listen to young ministers’ questions. Take their concerns seriously. Let them express their doubts and uncertainties.
Expressing what they don’t know is often how younger generations try to figure out what they want to know.
And don’t be too quick with answers. Especially the ones you’ve grown used to relying on. They’ve probably heard them before.
karlvaters.com/older-younger…
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Jun 11
Day 2677
Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. (2 Timothy 2:23)
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Jun 10
A lot of great things have come from the church growth movement, but one of its many unintended consequences is that it presupposes that small equals broken.
But small is not the same as broken because small is not a problem.
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Jun 10
On those occasions when church growth and church health offer mutually exclusive options will we choose for church health or church growth?
Always choose for church health.
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Jun 10
Day 2676
Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. (2 Timothy 2:23)
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Jun 9
Check out my convo w Kevin Foster, pastor of a church that made a radical shift in emphasis several years ago when the brokenness of the people in their lower income city led them to step into some hard places to help those who were hurting.
karlvaters.com/kevin-foster-…
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Jun 9
Why Successful Churches Aren’t Turning the World Upside-Down – But the Outcasts Might 🧵
Jesus was the most culture-challenging change agent who ever lived.
But we’ve taken His message and made it about success.
Trying to maintain success has made us safe.
Safe is boring.
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Jun 9
I pray for leaders with an unquenchable passion for Jesus and love for hurting people.
And I look forward to the day when they blast that message of transformative hope to the world.
I just pray that it happens in my lifetime. Because I want to cheer them on.
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