Viral Churches Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers
by Stetzer, Ed; Bird, WarrenEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-04-26
Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
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Summary
This volume in the Leadership Network Series offers the definitive guide for church planting and the burgeoning movement it is part of, and will inform, guide, and even catalyze today's many church planting leaders.
Author Biography
Ed Stetzer, Ph.D., is president of LifeWay Research, visiting professor of research and missiology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, visiting research professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a contributing editor for Christianity Today, and a columnist for Outreach Magazine and Catalyst Monthly. He has been a church planter and has trained pastors and church planters on five continents. His books include Planting Missional Churches.
Warren Bird, Ph.D., directs the research division at Leadership Network, teaches atAlliance Theological Seminary, and regularly contributes to several magazines. An ordained minister, he has been involved in five church plants. Bird has coauthored twenty-one books including Starting a New Church.
Visit the Leadership Network Website, www.leadnet.org, for more innovative resources and information.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Church Planting: The New Evangelism | |
| Growth by Addition: Big Contrast to Multiplication | |
| New Players: Aggressive Local Churches and Church Planting Networks | |
| Kingdom Cooperation: Church Planters Learning Together | |
| Predictors of Success: Recruitment, Assessment, and Deployment | |
| Thriving: New Church Survival Rates | |
| House Churches: Separating Reality from Fiction | |
| Multisite Strategy: A Fast-Growing Trend That Affects Planting | |
| Rapid Growth: Still Not Reproduction | |
| Funding: Partnerships Matter | |
| The New Scorecard: Measuring a Church Multiplication Movement | |
| Obstacles to Missional Replication: What Holds Us Back | |
| Conclusion: Solving the Toughest Challenges | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Appendix: List of Churches and Networks Cited | |
| Notes | |
| Index | |
| Annotated Bibliography for Church Multiplication | |
| The Authors | |
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