The largest church my father ever led in Charlotte, North Carolina was about 400 people. Certainly we had larger spikes during revivals or special events, but on average, most of my father’s congregations maxed out between 300-400 people. And I can’t recall a time when my dad didn’t have a second job. During most of my school years, he taught school bus drivers (yes, back then high school kids drove the school buses.) Later, he…
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