Dream Small: How to Have “Success” in Ministry

If you have spent any time at all in Western/Evangelical/Charismatic Christianity, you have heard things like these:

• God is big, you need to dream big.
• God has big dreams for you.
• Your faith needs to be big.
• You need to be a dream chaser.
• Your faith is too small.
• You are destined to be a world changer.
• Overcome your ministry limitations.
• Take your ministry to the “next level” . . . and so on. 

American cultural values of success: size (numbers in attendance), finances, and fame (sff) –bigger is better–more is “God,”  have spread through Western (American) popular Evangelicalism like a bad outbreak of athlete’s foot fungus in a men’s locker room.

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