Jossey-Bass Leadership Network

3 primary works • 5 total works

Viral Churches

by Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird

Published 1 January 2010

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.

The Other 80 Percent

by Scott Thumma and Warren Bird

Published 12 April 2011

A research-based approach to developing more active and involved congregations In this practical resource, well-known and respected researcher Scott Thumma and professional co-writer Warren Bird draw upon new and heretofore unpublished research across a broad range of Protestant churches of all sizes and show how to create more active members. Offers solid information of what church leaders need to know about the factors and practices that create church members who are more actively and passionately involved in their congregations. * Offers a first of its kind resource for developing engaged congregations * Lead author Scott Thumma is a noted researcher and writer on congregational studies * Warren Bird is coauthor of Culture Shift and Viral Churches This book offers advice for moving church members from being spectators to living a life of discipleship and faith.

Better Together

by Jim Tomberlin and Warren Bird

Published 1 January 2012

Thousands of Protestant churches are perplexed by plateaued or declining attendance, while other congregations nearby thrive. Is there a way for them to combine forces, drawing on both their strengths, in ways that also increase their missional impact? Church merger consultant Jim Tomberlin, with co-writer Warren Bird, makes the case that mergers today work best not with two struggling churches but with a vital, momentum-filled lead church partnering with a joining church. In this new book, they provide a complete, practical, hands-on guide for church leaders of both struggling and vibrant churches so that they can understand the issues, develop strategies, and execute a variety of forms of merger for church expansion and renewal to reinvigorate declining churches and give them a "second life."

Culture Shift - Transforming Your Church from the Inside Out

by Robert Lewis, Wayne Cordeiro, and Warren Bird

Published 13 May 2005

Culture Shift, written for church leaders, ministers, pastors, ministry teams, and lay leaders, leads you through the process of identifying your church's distinctive culture, gives you practical tools to change it from the inside-out, and provides steps to keep your new culture aligned with your church's mission. Real transformation is not about working harder at what you're already doing or even copying another church's approach but about changing church culture at a foundational level.

The Other 80 Percent: Turning Your Church's Spectators Into Active Participants

by Scott Thumma and Warren Bird

Published 1 January 2011