ALL THEY HAD

The legendary NFL coach, Bill Parcels once said, “You are who your record says you are.” You might be coaching a very talented group of players, but if the team’s record says you have only won five games out of seventeen, then you have a non-playoff team. To be a playoff team, that group of talented players must win games. Only then can they dispel the “not very good” label.

A similar statement can be said about pastoring a church. Society, and many in the church world, base success on how many people attend on Sunday mornings. When studying the larger churches, we see they have children’s church with a director, teen ministries with a director, mission coordinators, and other staff members that help that church be successful.

Seeing these bigger churches do those things, we look at our small and rural local church. It oozes with potential, but we…