Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers

Ed Stetzer, Warren Bird

John Wiley & Sons, Apr 26, 2010 - Religion - 256 pages

A groundbreaking guide for multiplying the impact of church plants

Based on a study that was commissioned by the Leadership Network, this book reveals the best practices in church planting and uncovers the common threads among them. A much-needed resource, this book will inform, guide, and even catalyze today's many church planting leaders. The authors clearly show leaders how to plant churches that create a multiplication movement and offer inspiration for them to do so. The book addresses their questions about what to do next in their church planting strategies, in light of research on what's actually working best.

• Author Ed Stetzer heads up LifeWay Research
• Provides reliable, credible information about what church planting strategies work best
• A volume in the Leadership Network Series

Offers a definitive guide for church planting and the burgeoning movement it is part of.

Contents

• The New Evangelism: 11
• Big Contrast to Addition: 31
• Aggressive Local Churches and Church: 49
• Church Planters: 67
• Recruitment Assessment: 83
• New Church Survival Rates: 101
• Separating Reality from Fiction: 115
• A FastGrowing Trend That: 129
• Still Not Reproduction: 139
• Measuring a Church: 161
• What Holds: 185
• Solving the Toughest Challenges: 195
• Acknowledgments: 209
• What We Can Learn from Americas Largest: 219
• Annotated Bibliography for Church Multiplication: 225
• Creating Incarnational Community Hugh Halter: 228
• Leading from Fragmentation to Engagement Mel Lawrenz: 235
• Scripture Index: 244

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers; Volume 50 of Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series
• Authors: Ed Stetzer, Warren Bird
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2010
• ISBN: 0470550457, 9780470550458
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christianity / General; Religion / General; Religion / Leadership