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Church Health and Growth

Keller on How Church Size Impacts Volunteer Recruitment

The larger the church, the harder it is to recruit volunteers and thus a more well-organized volunteer recruitment process is required.

Tim Keller:

"The larger the church, the harder it is to recruit volunteers and thus a more well-organized volunteer recruitment process is required. Why is this so? First, the larger the church, the more likely it is that someone you don’t know well will try to recruit you. It is much easier to say no to someone you do not know than to someone you know well. Second, it is easier to feel less personally responsible for the ministries of a large church: “They have lots of people here—they don’t need me.” Therefore, the larger the church, the more well-organized and formal the recruitment of volunteers must be."

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