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The great ends of the (small) church  

Budgets and worship numbers matter — but they are not everything, Phil Blackburn believes.

Carved Wooden pews in church in sunshine

If you are reading this, perhaps your church is small, or you think you are small, or you even someday dream of becoming small. In the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), “small” is as much a state of mind as a matter of raw numbers. Some congregations with an average worship attendance of 200 think they are small because, once, 400 attended their worship. Other congregations think they are small because they compare themselves to the largest...

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