One example is the percentage of people who practice their spiritual gifts to help their church grow. In churches with less than 100 in attendance, it's 31 percent. You can say that's not much. But if you compare that with churches of over 1,000 in attendance, which average only 17 percent, you see there is a decline in quality. 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.