{"id":1959,"date":"2008-03-27T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2008-03-27T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T10:21:00","slug":"interesting-thoughts-about-church-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1959","title":{"rendered":"Interesting thoughts about church size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Bishop Alan&#8217;s blog <a href=\"http:\/\/bishopalan.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/churches-that-grow-too-big.html\">here <\/a>(and follow the links).<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s true that you can&#8217;t be an effective pastor to a congregation of much more than about 60 adults; this ties in very strongly with things that Eugene Peterson teaches and, of course, with the Killing George Herbert approach.<\/p>\n<p>Which means, in the Mersea context, that we need four or five &#8216;ministers&#8217; for church to work, relational glue to be formed, and to ensure that people don&#8217;t fall through the cracks.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Bishop Alan&#8217;s blog here (and follow the links). I think it&#8217;s true that you can&#8217;t be an effective pastor to a congregation of much more than about 60 adults; this ties in very strongly with things that Eugene Peterson &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1959\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,24,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-mersea","category-ministry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-vB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}