The Best of 2024: De-Sizing The Church (w/ Karl Vaters) – Episode 264

The Best of 2024: De-Sizing The Church (w/ Karl Vaters) – Episode 264

95Network ministry partner Karl Vaters joins Dale for another podcast to discuss his latest book, “De-Sizing The Church.” This is a great conversation that reveals so much about how the church in America operates today. It also dives into the historical turning points that led us to where we are currently.

You’ll really enjoy Karl and Dale’s transparent conversation on today’s podcast.

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Key Takeaways

1) One of the problems with focusing solely on “bigness” is that we can make an idol out of it.

2) Donald McGavran didn’t originally want to share his successful ideas with American church pastors for fear that they would use the principles “out of context” with how they were developed.

3) A natural phenomenon that led to much of the megachurch movement was the relocation of the population to the suburbs.

4) Karl’s research suggests that “the Christian Celebrity Culture” guarantees an eventual moral failure at some point.

 

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