The Curse of Transfer Growth, Part 3: The Plight of Smaller Churches

You can’t find much, if any, historical evidence for embracing transfer growth in American churches until around 1970. In this third of three episodes, Thom shows how smaller churches in America reaped the consequences of the adulation of transfer growth.

Resources:

• Chaney & Associates

• How the Boomers Killed Many American Churches (The Church Answers Podcast, 3-Part Series)

• “Autopsy of a Deceased Church: 12 Ways to Keep Yours Alive” by Thom S. Rainer (affiliate link)

• The Everything Church Resource Directory

• The Hope Initiative

• Church Answers Central Membership

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