Churches merge apart in multicampus solution

Kansas City Star reports two Churches merge apart in multicampus solution. Merging apart is even more unusual than multi-site.

What is gained by this merger? What is lost? Is multi-site the way to maximize the gains and minimize the losses? Probably.

Will people from the "big church" go to the "little one"? Will people from the "little one" feel like they have been victims of a hostile take-over?