Viral churches : helping church planters become movement makers /

Stetzer, Ed.

Viral churches : helping church planters become movement makers / Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird. - 1st ed. - San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2010. - xii, 244 pages ; 24 cm. - Leadership network series .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-232) and index.

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 -- Solving the toughest challenges.

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. --from publisher description.

9780470550458 0470550457

2009048404

GBB036902 bnb

015505209 Uk


Church development, New.

BV 652.24 / .S73 2010