Eleven Observations about Church Transfer Growth

Is church transfer growth good, bad, or neutral? Let’s look at some different perspectives.

In simplest terms, transfer growth is a church member moving his or her membership from one church to another. Attitudes about this growth have changed significantly over the past twenty years. By the way, some of the funny phrases used for this growth are “shuffling of the sheep,” “sheep swapping,” and “circulation of the saints.”

Here are my eleven observations about church transfer growth.... Read more