TY - BOOK AU - Stetzer,Ed AU - Bird,Warren TI - Viral churches: helping church planters become movement makers T2 - Leadership network series SN - 9780470550458 AV - BV 652.24 .S73 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - San Francisco PB - Jossey-Bass KW - Church development, New N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -