Ep 056: You're Pastoring More People Than You Think, with Chad Brooks

With people attending church less frequently now, you average Sunday attendance represents a smaller percent of your regulars than ever befofe. And it affects how we pastor them and what they expect of the church in ways we may not realize.

Karl Vaters talks about this with Chad Brooks, a co-vocational pastor, blogger at RevChadBrooks.com, and the host of the Productive Pastor podcast, about:

• Why church size matters— but not in the way you think it does
• How to determine how many people you’re actually pastoring, since it’s changed a lot in the last couple years
• Why the main weekend service may no longer be the wide end of your church funnel, anymore

Links:

• Karl’s Twitter feed with Chad’s comments
• RevChadBrooks.com
• What The Drop In Attendance Frequency Means For Pastors
• Declaring Church Size (and why it matters)
• No Silver Bullets (book)
• https://www.ihelppastorsgetjobs.com/
• Ryan Burge
• The Great DeChurching (book)
• https://substack.com/
• Ian Harber on Substack
• @revchadbrooks

Bonus Content

The Moving Target of Small, Medium, and Large Churches — And Why It Matters

Karl Vaters talks with Chad Brooks about three different ways of deciding whether your church is small, medium, or big, including some helpful information that Chad found from actually interviewing church members about it.

This is important to know because if one person thinks 100 is small, another thinks 100 is medium, and a third person thinks 100 is big, it will change what they do, how they learn, and what leadership principles they follow.

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