{"id":1466,"date":"2012-01-13T14:49:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T14:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2012-01-13T14:49:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T14:49:43","slug":"what-does-church-size-dynamics-have-to-do-with-christ-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/13\/what-does-church-size-dynamics-have-to-do-with-christ-community\/","title":{"rendered":"What does &#8220;church size dynamics&#8221; have to do with Christ Community?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2010 stands out, to me, as the year that Christ Community successfully transitioned from living and thinking like a &#8220;small church&#8221; to that of a &#8220;medium size church&#8221;.\u00a0 Below is a small piece of an article Tim Keller wrote called Church Size Dynamics.\u00a0 At the end of my excerpt is a link to a longer excerpt.\u00a0 If you want to go straight to the 15 page doc, <a title=\"15 page doc\" href=\"http:\/\/theresurgence.com\/files\/2011\/02\/14\/Leadership_and_Church_Size_Dynamics.pdf\">cheers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We tend to think of the chief differences between churches mainly in denominational or theological terms, but that underestimates the impact of size on how a church operates. The difference between how churches of 100 and 1,000 function may be much greater than the difference between a Presbyterian and a Baptist church of the same size.<br \/>\nA large church is not simply a bigger version of a small church. The difference in communication, community formation, and decision-making processes are so great that the leadership skills required in each are of almost completely different orders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Size Cultures<\/h2>\n<p>Every church has a culture that goes with its size and which must be accepted. Most people tend to prefer a certain size culture, and unfortunately, many give their favorite size culture a moral status and treat other size categories as spiritually and morally inferior. They may insist that the only biblical way to do church is to practice a certain size culture despite the fact that the congregation they attend is much too big or too small to fit that culture.<\/p>\n<p>Longer excerpt <a title=\"longer excerpt on resurgence site\" href=\"http:\/\/theresurgence.com\/2011\/02\/15\/leadership-church-size-dynamics\">here<\/a> and entire doc <a href=\"http:\/\/theresurgence.com\/files\/2011\/02\/14\/Leadership_and_Church_Size_Dynamics.pdf\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/13\/what-does-church-size-dynamics-have-to-do-with-christ-community\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2010 stands out, to me, as the year that Christ Community successfully transitioned from living and thinking like a &#8220;small church&#8221; to that of a &#8220;medium size church&#8221;.\u00a0 Below is a small piece of an article Tim Keller wrote called Church Size Dynamics.\u00a0 At the end of my excerpt is a link to a longer [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-nE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}