Jim Tomberlin, Warren Bird

Better Together

Making Church Mergers Work - Expanded and Updated

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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?In Better Together, Expanded and Updated: Making Church Mergers Work, church merger consultant Jim Tomberlin and award-winning writer Warren Bird make 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. This much-needed resource describes the range of mergers for strong, stable, stuck, and struggling churches. No matter what type of merger a church may be considering, the authors address key questions about the process: How can a merger help a church go forward? How will a merger process unfold? Where can a declining church find another congregation to join? What are the pitfalls that both pastor and congregation should avoid? How can better together lead to more, rather than fewer, life-giving, high-impact, reproducing churches? They provide a complete, practical, hands-on guide for church leaders of both struggling and vibrant churches, so they can understand the issues, develop strategies, and execute mergers for church expansion and renewal--ultimately, so they can reinvigorate declining churches and give them a second life.No matter what your motivation for merging your church with another--to begin a new church life cycle, cross racial lines, reach more people for Christ, multiply your church's impact, or better serve your local community--Better Together will give you the tools you need to create a thriving new entity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: 1517 Media
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781506463353
• ISBN-10: 1506463355
• Artikelnr.: 59465490

Autorenporträt

Jim Tomberlin, through The Unstuck Group, helps churches get "unstuck" and multiply through multisite and merger coaching. He has pastored churches in New Mexico and Germany, grown a megachurch in Colorado, and pioneered the multisite strategy for Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago. Since 2005 he has been consulting and coaching churches in developing and implementing multisite strategies. A graduate of Georgia State University and Dallas Theological Seminary, Jim is the author of three books: 125 Tips for MultiSite Churches, Better Together: Making Church Mergers Work, and Church Locality: New Rules for Church Buildings in a Multisite, Church Planting, and Giga-Church World. Contact Jim on Twitter @MultiSiteGuy or @MergerGuru.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series xi 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 Motives
35 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
Candidate 129 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