In all areas except one, the quality decreases with the size of the church. Small churches outperform large churches in seven out of the eight categories. Larger churches do better than smaller churches only in creating more inspiring worship services. This makes sense. In a crowd of 5,000, to sing worship songs and to have higher quality music is more inspiring than being together with eight other people and a guitarist who can play only three chords.
Most churches have a weakness that they tend to ignore.
They want to grow further in the area of their strengths. A church must build on its strengths and deal with its weaknesses. No church can do without any of those eight characteristics. A church's minimum factor may be evangelism, for example. If they are good in prayer, they tend to go on with prayer.