Crucial Commitments: 5 Simple Decisions That Members of Healthy and Growing Churches Make

About this episode

Thom and Sam discuss five crucial commitments that contribute to the health and growth of churches.

Churches that are laser-focused on these five commitments tend to experience a continuous cycle of healthy church growth, while churches that allow the urgency of the moment to distract them from these commitments tend to experience decline. Thom and Sam discuss the new book, "Crucial Commitments." The post Crucial Commitments: 5 Simple Decisions That Members of Healthy and Growing Churches Make appeared first on Church Answers .

People in this episode

Host: Thom Rainer

Guest: Sam

Topics covered

• church growth
• commitments
• leadership
• Christianity
• healthy churches

Keywords

• church growth
• commitments
• leadership
• Christianity
• healthy churches

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Church Answers

Books & works: Crucial Commitments

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