Ep 083: ​Flyover Church: Jesus' Ministry in Rural Places, with Brad Roth

Karl Vaters talks with Brad Roth about the content from his new book, Flyover Church: How Jesus’ Ministry in Rural Places Is Good News Everywhere, for which Karl wrote the foreword.

Topics include:

• How the rural church is different from the city and suburban church, not just in scale, but in type
• How metrics are very different in the rural church
• The lure of strategy
• The radically different pace of rural ministry
• And more

Brad is also the author of The Hunger Inside: How the Meal Jesus Gave Transforms Lives, and God's Country: Faith, Hope, and the Future of the Rural Church.

Links:

• DoxologyProject.com
• Book: God's Country: Faith, Hope, and the Future of the Rural Church
• Book: The Hunger Inside: How the Meal Jesus Gave Transforms Lives
• Book: Flyover Church: How Jesus' Ministry in Rural Places Is Good News Everywhere

​Brad Roth Bonus Chat summary

One New Person: Toward An Authentic Metric For The Rural Church

Karl Vaters talks with Brad Roth about how and why metrics work very differently in rural churches than in urban and suburban churches. As Brad wrote, “Most of us don’t need numbers to know whether our church is thriving. Numbers often stand in for intuition and attempt to substitute with a dashboard what can only be learned through years spent with a people in a place.”

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