I thought you might find it interesting. Bandy God loves small churches. God abhors small visions. There in a nutshell lies the dilemma of small churches, urban or rural, moving into the new millennium. On the other hand, small churches too often get emotional about trivialities and excited about irrelevancies.
Small churches tend to be obsessed with a vision to survive.
Unfortunately, nowhere in the Bible does God call people merely to survive. In this issue, Ray Bulman expresses his hope that the new millennium will witness initiatives for peace, spirituality, and justice that mirror the experience of the last turn of the millennium. Tony Pappas shares his hope that small churches can use their intimacy and faithfulness for local and global mission. I know them both to be insightful, positive, compassionate church leaders. But I see the millennium challenge to small churches as very large.