small church ministers
I’ve been watching the SBC meetings online this week. Sunday and Monday are usually the best meetings of the convention. They have several different pastors from churches all over the convention to speak and some of those churches even provide the music for the day. I enjoy listening to those pastors speak.
It is exciting to know the convention leaders have asked younger ministers to speak in recent years. As a younger minister and a pastor’s wife, I’m appreciative that those leaders listened to the requests of younger ministers and included other younger ministers on the speaking schedules. But… they included younger ministers of megachurches …churches with an average weekend attendance of over 2,000, and most of them are pastors of megachurches of 20,000+.
If most of the churches in the convention average around 200 in attendance, then how come we aren’t hearing from some of those pastors at the convention meetings?
Someone might say, “well, we don’t know those pastors.” Then I say, “get out there and meet them.” Isn’t that one reason why we have state conventions and associations?
Our National leaders need to interact with our state convention leaders who can point them to our association leaders who can then introduce our leaders to the small churches… the churches of 200.
If our leaders accept the position as head of the convention for the year, then they need to set aside that year to interact with more of the size of churches making up the majority of the convention. I understand this is a huge God-sized task, but if he doesn’t have the time to pursue a task of this size or can’t be away from his church for great lengths of time, then he probably doesn’t need to accept the position.
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