(This post is an excerpt from 

Karl Vaters’ “New Small Church” blog)

There’s more than one way for churches to grow.

But over the last forty years or so we’ve been given one model of church growth almost exclusively. Get more people in the building.

Nothing in nature keeps growing continuously. Everything grows bigger until it reaches maturity, then it grows in other ways after that.



Why would we expect local churches to be any different? 

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