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Ep 044: Ministry in Today’s Rural Church, with Brad Roth

The Church Lobby

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The Importance of New Metrics in Rural Congregations

Roxanne Jones: We need to complicate our understanding of growth and what it takes to achieve growth in rural congregations. "You can't measure the hidden life of the church," says Jones, who is writing a new book about small churches. She asks if we were to lean away from metrics altogether and move towards a rule that's more like Saint Benedict or Charles Finney.

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