How to Discover and Use What Your Church Does Well

Pastor John Jenkins hosts author and small-church specialist Karl Vaters, who explains how congregations can stop imitating large churches and instead identify, sharpen, and showcase what they already do well. Using stories (a rural church that excelled at funeral receptions; another known as “the church that cares for kids”), Vaters outlines a biblical framework—Great Commandment, Great Commission, and the “pastoral prime mandate” (Eph. 4:11–12)—and practical tools to narrow focus, equip members, and create sustainable processes for continual improvement.