131. The Rise of the Micro-Church

2025-04-28

Hello. I’m Randy, and I pastor a small church. That, of course, is meant to sound like the stereotyped introduction of an AA meeting. But this is not an admission that this idea of “Small Church Thinking” which has occupied us recently arises from my being hooked on churches being small. The truth is the opposite. Most of us are addicted to bigness. We are so drenched in the assumption that churches should be growing and big that we are blinded to what might have been lost in our devotion to this modern ideal. We need to no...

Hello. I’m Randy, and I pastor a small church.

That, of course, is meant to sound like the stereotyped introduction of an AA meeting.

But this is not an admission that this idea of “Small Church Thinking” which has occupied us recently arises from my being hooked on churches being small. The truth is the opposite. Most of us are addicted to bigness. We are so drenched in the assumption that churches should be growing and big that we are blinded to what might have been lost in our devotion to this modern ideal.

We need to not only go through a process of detox, but also to mount a positive resistance.

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EPISODE NOTES

Notes and resources relevant to this episode:

E. F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered.⁠

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