
Better Together
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Warren Bird, Ph.D., an ordained minister, is the research director at Leadership Network. He has conducted numerous interviews and surveys on topics of church restarts, church planting, multisites, and mergers, and is the coauthor of twenty-three books including Culture Shift, Viral Churches, and The Other 80 Percent, all from Jossey-Bass.
Content
Foreword xiii
Craig Groeschel
Preface xv
Part One: The New Merger Landscape 1
1. God Is Doing Something New: Biblical Basis for Mergers 3
2. Four Models for Healthy Mergers 21
3. Missional, Multisite, Multiethnic, and Other Merger Motives35
Part Two: How Healthy Church Mergers Work 61
4. Stages and Speed of a Merger 63
5. How to Measure Success 77
6. Why Mergers Fail 91
7. Financial and Legal Aspects of a Merger 105
8. Personnel Changes 117
Part Three: Your Next Steps 127
9. Determining Whether Your Church Is a Good Merger Candidate129
10. How to Start the Merger Conversation 149
11. Self-Assessment for Merger Readiness 161
12. Exercise: Identifying Your Merger Issues 167
13. Managing Pain and Change 177
14. Where Do You Go from Here? 187
Appendixes
A. Merger Process Checklist 195
B. Example of Merger Issues to Resolve 198
C. FAQs Example from Bethany-Sun Valley Churches 206
D. FAQs Example from Ginghamsburg Church 216
E. FAQs Example from Woodside Bible Church 220
F . FAQs on Preparing for a Merger Vote 223
G. Churches Named 225
H. Merger Research 229
Acknowledgments 231
Notes 233
The Authors 241
Index 243
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