Small churches can become great churches. It can be done.
A close friend of mine was the prayer secretary in the Christian Union during university days. He was (and is) an excellent, zealous Christian and, simply for reasons of being aware that he would not want attention drawn to himself, I will not give you his name.
In the mid-1970s he was called as a very young man to pastor a small church in a Midlands town. The situation was a classic of discouragement. The church building was a great barn of a place in a state of some dilapidation and the congregation had dwindled to perhaps 20 or so mainly elderly folk. But, nevertheless my friend felt the call of God to take it on.
The re-emergence of heavy shepherds
What would you think if you received a letter from your church leaders that read like this? ‘Are church members …