How not to grow a big church

I was bouncing around Kathy Escobar’s blog—now that she’s finished her series on what the church could and should be, I need to put up a post on that—and caught a link to a post on her congregation’s blog on “8 sure ways to shrink a church.”  I commend it to your reading.  No doubt, the principles they lay out are no way to create a big organization; but they are, I think, quite helpful in growing the people of God.