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Podcast: MinistryWatch Podcast
Episode: Ep. 362: Karl Vaters Wants To “De-Size” The Church
Description: Karl Vaters is not against bigness on principle. He is quick to point out that large churches can use their size to do things that smaller churches simply cannot.
But he also says that the things that big churches do better are few, and that getting big, pursuing growth, often comes at great financial and spiritual cost.
His new book is called De-Sizing The Church: How Church Growth Became a Science, Then an Obsession, and What’s Next. He says that numbers are meant to inform us, not define us, and he goes on to sa...