Small churches
    
    
    
         
            
            Priscilla Seidler
        
        
            Date posted: 1 Mar 2014
        
     
    
    
    
        Dear Sir,
 
In 
 ‘Growing 
 a 
 rural 
 church’ 
 in 
 the
 February issue of EN (an interesting article),
 Chris  Sinkinson  talks  about  ‘critical  mass’
 and  needing  a  certain  number  within  a
 church to be able to do useful gospel work.
 He says: ‘Less than [in the region of 30 people]  and  we  may  lack  the  critical  mass  to
 really be an effective church’.
    
 
                
                    
    
        
            
        
        
            
        
    
    Nothing to boast about...
    
    
    
    
    
    
        When things appear to go wrong in your life, it's time to start praising God! It is very plain to me now that God was in control of the seemingly disastrous events in our children's lives.
I'd tried to bring our children up to believe in Jesus Christ as their saviour, but our church background was such that I'd never realised that mere assent isn't enough! However, in the autumn of 1995 we started going to a Grace Baptist church, where we began to receive thorough, Reformed, biblical teaching.