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Ep 040: How Excellence Looks Different In Small Churches, with Erik Reed

The Church Lobby

English - January 26, 2023 08:01 - 41 minutes - ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
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Previous Episode: Ep 039: Polycentric Leadership: Church as a Discipleship Movement, with Dan White Jr.
Next Episode: Ep 041: Ministry as a Solo Pastor, with Gary L. McIntosh

Karl Vaters interviews Erik Reed, a pastor in Nashville TN. This conversation is, surprisingly, based on a Twitter thread Erik wrote about how excellence in smaller churches looks different than it does in bigger churches.
Karl and Erik talk about

The dangers of small churches trying to imitate larger churches

The attractiveness of authenticity

The importance of investing our time and resources wisely

Examples of what small-church excellence actually looks like

Instead of pushing for the technical “wow” factor, we need to remember that people who come to a smaller church are looking for us to do the small, relational things well, so that’s where we need to put our energy.

Erik Reed on Twitter: @ErikReed
Read Erik Reed’s Twitter Thread on Small Church Excellence
Read it here if you’re not on Twitter

For a Transcript of this episode visit the Pivot Blog 

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Karl Vaters interviews Erik Reed, a pastor in Nashville TN. This conversation is, surprisingly, based on a Twitter thread Erik wrote about how excellence in smaller churches looks different than it does in bigger churches.

Karl and Erik talk about


The dangers of small churches trying to imitate larger churches
The attractiveness of authenticity
The importance of investing our time and resources wisely
Examples of what small-church excellence actually looks like


Instead of pushing for the technical “wow” factor, we need to remember that people who come to a smaller church are looking for us to do the small, relational things well, so that’s where we need to put our energy.


Erik Reed on Twitter: @ErikReed

Read Erik Reed’s Twitter Thread on Small Church Excellence

Read it here if you’re not on Twitter


For a Transcript of this episode visit the Pivot Blog 


Support This Work:

Visit the Website

Subscribe to weekly Newsletter

Contribute financially at KarlVaters.com/support

Visit our Youtube Channel

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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