Karl Vaters | Following Jesus in the Small Church – 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 greater health and healing.
The beauty of multiple generations being church together.
Why “online” church is church, but is not enough church.
The changing landscape of culture, church, and spirituality.
Taking time for prayer, Bible reading, and slowing down.
What does it look like to slow down and notice the presence of God?
Finding your own rhythm, and the best time for prayer or devotional.

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