# Warren Bird

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Warren Bird: How Megachurches Are Growing by Getting Smaller | Church3.0

Warren Bird has spent more than two decades researching America's largest churches and has authored or co-authored 35 books on church leadership. In this conversation with Tyler Vance, Warren unpacks the new Mega Church Resurgence study, a survey repeated every five years since 2000, and explains w…

Becoming a Future Ready Church w/ Daniel Yang

(Episode 82) Acts 16 is usually read as a travel log — Paul crossing into Macedonia, planting a church at Philippi. Missiologist Daniel Yang reads it as the record of an impossible coalition: a businesswoman, a trafficked girl, a Roman jailer, held together by nothing the ancient world would rec…

When to search for a new preacher

Send me a Text Message or ask a question. — Jerrie Could your congregation hurt its next preacher by starting the search too soon? What if the most important part of choosing a new preacher isn't finding him—but saying goodbye to the old one? Why do so many churches struggle with a new preacher, ev…

107. Megachurches

They have thousands of congregants and millions of dollars in income. Zachary Crockett passes the collection plate.  SOURCES: Julie Roys, founder of the Roys Report. Scott Thumma, professor of sociology of religion at Hartford International University, director of the Hartford Institute for Religi…

S2:E6 - Many Sites, One Church: What's Next for Multisite with Warren Bird

Multisite is no longer a passing trend in church ministry; it has become one of the most common ways congregations grow and expand their impact. On this episode of Margin for Mission, church researcher and author Warren Bird joins the show to unpack his latest findings on how multisite churches are…

LILR 171 | Multisite Revealed with Warren Bird

If you think multisite is only for megachurches, or that the best campus pastor is the one who stays forever, Dr. Warren Bird has some data that might surprise you. After a year-long research project with more than 1,000 church leaders, Warren joins Sean Morgan to unpack what’s actually happening i…