I finished off another book today. This one is by Steve Bierly called Help for the Small-Church Pastor. The main point of this book is that small congregations can be just as faithful to the church's calling as larger ones--only in different ways, unique to the small church. The book is filled with little nuggets of advise to small-church pastors. I didn't find anything overly new or revolutionary in this book, but I did appreciate its encouraging tone. The author is emphatic that small churches are unique and that as pastors come to take that uniqueness seriously and to appreciate it they will also begin to see the ways in which their congregation is and can be a faithful Christian church. In many ways, this has increasingly been my thinking over the last nine years at Bethel Church. There is much to love at Bethel church and there are lots of examples of Christian faithfulness in our church. Perhaps, we need to celebrate that and be more encouraged by it.
Blessings, David
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