How Your Building Shapes Your Ministry: Five Ways the Baptist T Still Shapes (and Limits) Your Ministry

Episode #SP042
August 27, 2025
Rainer on Leadership

Sam is joined by Todd Brown and Isaac Brown of Brown Church Development Group, who are “The Church Facility Experts.” In this second episode, they discuss how the Baptist T design still affects churches decades later–often in ways leaders don’t realize. Here are five ways this design limits ministry today and what can be done to use your facility as a tool for mission, not as a monument to the past.

    1. Hospitality and connection
    2. Assimilation problems
    3. Discipleship challenges
    4. Volunteer limitations
    5. Passive culture

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