The Multi-site Church Revolution: Being One Church... in Many Locations - Brossura

Surratt, Geoff; Ligon, Greg; Bird, Warren

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ISBN 10: 0310270154 ISBN 13: 9780310270157

Casa editrice: Zondervan, 2006

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Fueled by a desire to reach people for Christ, a revolution is underway. Churches are growing beyond the limitations of a single service in one building. Expanding the traditional model, they are embracing the concept of one church with more than one site: multiple congregations sharing a common vision, budget, leadership, and board. Drawing from the examples of churches nationwide, The Multi-Site Church Revolution shows what healthy multi-site churches look like and what motivates congregations to make the change. Discover how your church can: • cast a vision for change • ensure a successful DNA transfer (vision and core values) to its new site • develop new leaders • fund new sites • adapt to structure and staffing change • use technology to support your worship services you’ll identify the reasons churches succeed and how they overcome common snags. The Multi-Site Church Revolution offers guidance, insights, and specific action steps as well as appendixes with practical leadership resources and self-diagnostic tools. “I wholeheartedly recommend this book for any pastor or church leader who needs to know the pertinent issues, tested solutions, and real examples of multi-site strategies that are currently being deployed around the world.” —Ed Young, senior pastor, Fellowship Church “The authors have done their homework. They have firsthand knowledge of the successes and failures of this movement, having been networking with and facilitating dialogue among churches across the country for years.” —Max Lucado, senior minister, Oak Hills Church “Look no further than this book to propel your ministry to Ephesians 3:20 proportions: exceeding abundantly above all that you could ever ask or think!” —Randy and Paula White, senior pastors, Without Walls International Church This book is part of the Leadership Network Innovation Series.

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Geoff Surratt is on staff of Seacoast Church, a successful and high-visibility multi-site church. Geoff has twenty-four years of ministry experience in churches. Along with his wife and two children, he lives in Charleston, South Carolina. He is coauthor of The Multi-Site Church Revolution and author of Ten Stupid Things That Keep Churches from Growing.

Greg Ligon serves as Vice President and Director of Multi-Site Church Leadership Communities for Leadership Network, which involves location visits to over fifty multi-site churches. A capable writer, he also coauthored The Multi-site Church Revolution and is Leadership Network’s Publisher. He and his wife have two children and live in Dallas, Texas.

Warren Bird, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President of Research and Equipping at ECFA.org (Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability). Previously he was Research Director at Leadership Network. He's an award-winning author/co-author of 34 books for pastors and church leaders, church boards, and seminary professors. Bird researches cutting-edge churches and works with their leaders to multiply their evangelistic and disciple-making impact.

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Fueled by a desire to reach people for Christ, a revolution is underway. Churches are growing beyond the limitations of a single service in one building. Expanding the traditional model, they are embracing the concept of one church with more than one site: multiple congregations sharing a common vision, budget, leadership, and board. Drawing from the examples of churches nationwide, The Multi-Site Church Revolution shows what healthy multi-site churches look like and what motivates congregations to make the change. Discover how your church can: • cast a vision for change • ensure a successful DNA transfer (vision and core values) to its new site • develop new leaders • fund new sites • adapt to structure and staffing change • use technology to support your worship services you'll identify the reasons churches succeed and how they overcome common snags. The Multi-Site Church Revolution offers guidance, insights, and specific action steps as well as appendixes with practical leadership resources and self-diagnostic tools. “I wholeheartedly recommend this book for any pastor or church leader who needs to know the pertinent issues, tested solutions, and real examples of multi-site strategies that are currently being deployed around the world.” --Ed Young, senior pastor, Fellowship Church “The authors have done their homework. They have firsthand knowledge of the successes and failures of this movement, having been networking with and facilitating dialogue among churches across the country for years.” --Max Lucado, senior minister, Oak Hills Church “Look no further than this book to propel your ministry to Ephesians 3:20 proportions: exceeding abundantly above all that you could ever ask or think!” --Randy and Paula White, senior pastors, Without Walls International Church This book is part of the Leadership Network Innovation Series.

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You SayYou Wanta Revolution?Meet several highly successfulmulti-site churchesThese men who have turned the world upside down havecome here also. --- ACTS 17:6 ESVIt is coming . . . a movement of God. Some even call it a revolution.On Sunday morning at Seacoast Church, where I (Geoff) serve onstaff in Charleston, South Carolina, a band launches into a hard-drivingworship chorus as lyrics and background images are projected onscreens and television monitors throughout the auditorium. Everyonebegins to sing along with the worship team.This describes the experience at many contemporary churches,except that this scene happens eighteen times each weekend in ninelocations around the state, all of which are known as Seacoast Church.Using many different bands and worship leaders, Seacoast's eighteennearly identical weekend ser vices represent the look of a church thatchose not to fight city hall in order to construct a bigger building.We instead continued to reach new people by developing additionalcampuses.At another church across the country, a congregation just north ofSan Diego sings 'How Great Thou Art' in Traditions, one of six venueson the same church campus. North Coast Church in Vista, California,developed six different worship atmospheres, all within a few feetof each other. Traditions is more intimate and nostalgic, while othervenues range from country gospel to a coffeehouse feel to vibrating,big subwoofer attitude.The elements unifying these six on-site venues are the message (onevenue features in-person preaching, and the others use videocasts)and the weekly adult small groups, whose discussion questions centeron the sermon that everyone heard, no matter which venue theyattended. North Coast has now developed multiple venues on additionalcampuses, so that on a typical weekend in early 2006, worshiperschose between more than twenty different ser vices spread across fivecampuses.Over in Texas, Ed Young Jr., senior pastor of Fellowship Churchin Grapevine, preaches every Sunday morning on four campuses--- Grapevine, Uptown Dallas, Plano, and Alliance --- all at the sametime. Ed delivers his Saturday night message in person in the mainsanctuary on the Grapevine campus. It is videotaped and viewed thefollowing morning by congregations at the other venues via LCDprojectors and giant projection screens, framed by live music and acampus pastor. 'We decided we could reach more people and save ahuge amount of money by going to where the people are and doingsmaller venues instead of building a larger worship center in Grapevine,'Ed says.In downtown Chicago at New Life Bridgeport, a small church meetsin a century-old former United Church of Christ facility. The pastor,Luke Dudenhoffer, preaches a sermon that he's worked on with up toten other pastors across the city. Each pastor leads a satellite congregationof New Life Community Church, which is known as one churchin many locations.At Community Chris tian Church in Chicagoland, eight differentdrama teams perform the same sketch at eight different locations.Then up to three different teachers deliver a message they've developedcollaboratively. Most ser vices have an in-person preacher, thoughsome sermons are videocasts.These churches, and more than 1,500 churches like them across thecountry, are discovering a new model for doing church. Going beyondadditional ser vice times and larger buildings, churches are expandinginto multiple venues and locations, and many ofthem are seeing increased evangelism and evenexponential growth as a result. The approachof taking one church to multiple sites seemsto be the beginning of a revolution in howchurch is done in North America andaround the world.When four university computers werelinked together for the first time on somethingcalled ARPANET in the fall of 1969,there was very little press coverage of the event.Aside from the scientists working on the project, no one consideredthis event revolutionary; it was just an adaptation of concepts that hadexisted for many years. In spite of such simple beginnings, ARPANET,known today as the Internet, has revolutionized almost every aspectof our lives in the twenty-first century --- from how people get sportsscores to how they buy airline tickets to how they size up a churchbefore visiting it.Revolutions often begin with little fanfare. They are usually built onconcepts that have existed for many years and are seldom recognizedin the beginning as revolutionary. The measure of a revolution is itsimpact, not its origins.That is why we believe the multi-site church movement is revolutionary.The concept of having church in more than one location isn'tnew or revolutionary; the roots of multi-site go back to the church ofActs, which had to scatter due to persecution. Elmer Towns pointsout that the original Jerusalem church 'was one large group (celebration),and many smaller groups (cells). . . . The norm forthe New Testament church included both small cellgroups and larger celebration groups.'1 Likewise,Aubrey Malphurs observes that Corinth and otherfirst-century churches were multi-site, as a numberof multi-site house churches were consideredto be part of one citywide church.2Theapproach oftaking one church tomultiple sites seems to bethe beginning of a revolution inhow church is done in NorthAmerica and around theworld.Themeasure ofa revolution isits impact, not itsorigins.What is a multi-site church? A multi-site church is one church meeting inmultiple locations --- different rooms on the same campus, different locationsin the same region, or in some instances, different cities, states, ornations. A multi-site church shares a common vision, budget, leadership,and board.What does a multi-site church look like? A multi-site church can resembleany of a wide variety of models. For some churches, having multiplesites involves only a worship ser vice at each location; for others, eachlocation has a full range of support ministries. Some churches use videocastsermons (recorded or live); others have in-person teaching on-site.Some churches maintain a similar worship atmosphere and style at all theircampuses, and others allow or invite variation.What kind of church uses the multi-site approach?

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Zondervan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0310270154
• ISBN 13: 9780310270157
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 223
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile