Challenges for Small Churches
LifeWay recently surveyed small-church pastors to find out what their biggest challenges are. If you’re in a small church, take heed, and help out your leadership!
Brad Waggoner, vice president of B&H Publishing Group and former LifeWay Christian Resources vice president over the research and ministry development division, shared the findings at “Impact 2008,” a three-day conference geared to small-church pastors. Some of the best information from the study of nearly 400 small-church pastors -– defined as those who pastor churches with attendance of 100 or fewer on Sunday –- didn’t come from the areas of the survey which were the “check the box” answers but from the comments section, Waggoner said.
The list, in a nutshell:
- Time
- Resistance
- Lack of commitment from members
- Too few workers
- Age of the congregation
- Lack of money
- Worldliness of the church
- Age of the pastor
- Too few people
- Demographics
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