The Role of the Church: Small, Medium, or Large?

Church Size As you might imagine, the size of a church may have a huge impact on the role of the church and its capacity for carrying out the tasks of those roles. Church size could refer to a multitude of things: building size, membership population, number of attendees, or even giving rates. I think…

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What is the Role of the Church?

Introduction Over the next few blog posts, I want to explore different ideas about the church’s role in the community. Throughout the history of the church, she has played many different roles in many different communities. What roles are appropriate and which are inappropriate? When should it play those roles and in what types of…

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