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The Strategically Small Church: Intimate, Nimble, Authentic, and Effective is unavailable, but you can change that!

Brandon O'Brien helps pastors and church leaders understand that a smaller church is sometimes better than a big one. He demonstrates the strengths of small congregations, including that today's church "shoppers" want services that are local, personal, and intimate. Also, small churches provide space to nurture close relationships across age and lifestyle barriers, and they facilitate a higher...

church privileges the mission over the institution. It acknowledges, as pastor and writer Alan Hirsch has said, that “although we frequently say ‘the church has a mission’. . . a more correct statement would be ‘the mission has a church.’ ”3 The apostle Paul goes to great lengths in his letters to communicate that accomplishing the mission of God is a team sport. Together, every congregation is the physical body of Christ on earth; individually, every person is an integral member of that body (1 Corinthians
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