Spirituality For Ordinary People

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 gr