Derek and Scott talk to Rory Shiner from Providence Church in Perth, Western Australia. Rory has taken two churches through the ’125 barrier’ and he shares the benchmark problems he’s come to look out for.

Derek Hanna and Scott Sanders move into their third episode of their first in-depth TOT collection: Growth barriers.

Practically speaking, what are the key barriers to church growth, and what can done in God’s strength to address them?

Derek and Scott talk to Rory Shiner from Providence Church in Perth, Western Australia. Rory has taken two churches through the ’125 barrier’ and he shares the benchmark problems he’s come to look out for.

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