Warren Bird

Executive Vice President of Research, ECFA

Warren Bird, Ph.D. is author/co-author of 34 books including Hero Maker (theme book of the year for Exponential 2020) and Better Together Healthy Mergers (the leading guidebook on how to do a merger well). His latest co-authored book is on 8 big trends that all churches will face: Becoming a Future-Ready Church.

He is one of the nation’s most widely quoted researchers about the health and growth of today’s church, cited by both mainstream and Christian media. He’s written the “Leadership from the Global Church” column for Outreach magazine since 2014.

Warren serves as senior vice president of research and equipping for ECFA (the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability), where he oversaw the nation’s largest-ever cross-denominational study of church planters, “The New Faces of Church Planting and Multisiting” (ECFA.org/surveys).

Articles

October 30, 2024

Becoming a Future-Ready Church: Modes and Models of the Future

Exponential NEXT Podcast Episode 33 Series: Becoming a Future-Ready Church Church leaders will need to learn how to embrace the many modes of church and...

October 23, 2024

Becoming a Future-Ready Church: Conversations with Justin and Janae Klatt and the Authors

Exponential NEXT Podcast Episode 32 Series: Becoming a Future-Ready Church This episode opens up with a discussion between Warren Bird, Daniel Yang, and Adelle Banks,...

October 16, 2024

Becoming a Future-Ready Church: Conversations with Rosario ‘Roz’ Picardo and the Authors

Exponential NEXT Podcast Episode 31 Series: Becoming a Future-Ready Church This episode kicks off with Adelle Banks engaging in a conversation with Rosario “Roz” Picardo,...

October 9, 2024

Becoming a Future Ready Church: Conversation with Carl Johnson and the Authors

Exponential NEXT Podcast Episode 30 Series: Becoming a Future-Ready Church In the first part of this episode, Adelle Banks talks to Carl Johnson, Lead Pastor...

October 2, 2024

Becoming a Future-Ready Church

Exponential NEXT Podcast Episode 29 Series: Becoming a Future-Ready Church In the first half of this episode, co-authors Warren Bird, Daniel Yang and Adelle Banks...

September 9, 2024

How Can Your Church Be More Ready for Tomorrow?

Wayne Gretzky, world famous for more than 1,000 professional hockey goals and 2,000 assists, was once asked his secret.  “I don’t go to where the...

August 14, 2024

The Future of Multiplication with Warren Bird

Exponential NEXT Podcast Episode 22 Series: The Future of Multiplication What is the data telling us? In this kickoff to our Future of Multiplication Series,...

November 9, 2017

Warren Bird’s HeroMaker Story

Warren Bird, Ph.D. is author/co-author of 34 books including Hero Maker (theme book of the year for Exponential 2020) and Better Together Healthy Mergers (the...