Develop Leaders and Multiply Impact through Team Resilience

In today's episode, we have the privilege of hosting a renowned author, speaker, and expert in the megachurch world, Warren Bird. Join us as Warren shares insights from his latest book on Team Resilience. Listen to explore the intriguing question: What could God do if every member of a team was operating at their best, supporting one another, fostering a high-trust environment, and achieving peak effectiveness? Get tuned in for a conversation that will inspire, challenge, and reshape your perspective on team dynamics and resilience.

Warren Bird, Ph.D., researches cutting-edge churches and works with their leaders to multiply their evangelistic and disciplemaking impact. He is widely recognized as among the nation’s leading students, researchers and writers about megachurches.

He has authored or co-authored over 30 books, receiving several awards along the way. For example, he received the prestigious Gold Medallion Award, the top honor given by the international trade association for Christian publishers. He has also contributed collaborative chapters or sections to 7 other books. He has published almost 200 magazine articles and more than 30 major research reports. He has served on advisory boards for several magazines and several other book projects.

As an ordained minister, he served on staff for 11 years at Princeton (N.J.) Alliance Church, an innovative church with a worship attendance approaching 2,000. Other pastoral experience includes leading a C&MA church-planting team for four years. He has also served as a long-time regularly contributing faculty member at Alliance Theological Seminary teaching in the D. Min Program.

Today he is Vice President of Research and Equipping at the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA), the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit accrediting agency designed to enhance trust and certify integrity in Christ-centered churches and ministries.
 
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Co-authored books mentioned in this episode:
The Resilience Factor: A Step-by-Step Guide to Catalyze an Unbreakable Team: https://a.co/d/8Eru2cc
Better Together: Making Church Mergers Work (expanded and updated edition): https://a.co/d/aAa01Pj
Next: Pastoral Succession that Works (expanded and updated edition): https://a.co/d/2brHZ1x
Liquid Church: Six Powerful Ways to Saturate Your City for Christ: https://a.co/d/fUVtMwb

Warren’s Website: https://warrenbird.com 
ECFA’s Website: https://www.ecfa.org

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