“Your church is big enough,” writes Karl Vaters in Small Church Essentials. “Right now. Today, at its current size.” Vaters’ statement goes against the grain of what many ministers have been taught, explicitly and implicitly, about church growth. “A healthy church will grow numerically,” they’ve been taught in so many words. “If yours isn’t growing, you’re doing something wrong. Here’s how to break the ____ barrier” (fill in the blank with a large number). The intent of this teaching is good, of course. Church growth aims at increasing a church’s size by increasing the number of people it wins to … Continue reading Small Church Essentials | Book Review