Many small churches feel ‘disenfranchised,’ pastors say
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–Pastors of many churches in the Southern Baptist Convention are “disenfranchised” by the prevalence of megachurch-pastor speakers at church growth conferences, according to two small-church pastors. Because of the prevalence of smaller churches and bivocational pastors in the SBC, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s Scarborough Institute for Church Growth and the Baptist General […]