How to Multiply Your Church: The Most Effective Way to Grow

How to Multiply Your Church: The Most Effective Way to Grow

How to Multiply Your Church: The Most Effective Way to Grow

How to Multiply Your Church: The Most Effective Way to Grow

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Overview

Churches in North America are bigger than ever, but their slow rate of growth cannot keep up with population increases. Existing churches simply cannot add enough new believers! The good news is that by multiplying—steadily and strategically planting new churches that, in turn, plant new churches—the global Church creates more of what Ralph Moore calls harvest points. In How to Multiply Your Church, Pastor Moore shows church leaders and pastors why multiplication is the key to growing God's global kingdom in their communities, and he offers them proven methods for implementing multiplication in their existing churches. Countless leaders have found an indispensable resource in starting a new church because of Pastor Moore's vast firsthand experience and practical wisdom. How to Multiply Your Church is the next leap forward for those who long to see God's kingdom increase.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780801018060
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/14/2009
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 709,579
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Ralph Moore is the senior pastor of Hope Chapel Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii and the founder of Hope Chapel in Hermosa Beach, California. His ministry now spans more than 700 churches on six continents. Pastor Moore travels extensively, teaching pastors and church leaders biblical models for spreading the gospel and building Christ's kingdom. He and his wife, Ruby, have two adult children who are also involved in church multiplication.

Table of Contents

Foreword 11

Introduction Be Fruitful, Multiply...and Fill All the Earth 15

Part 1 To Add, Multiply or Both?

1 Why 1943 Was a Very Good Year: A Church Multiplication Metaphor 19

2 Kingdoms in Conflict: A Spiritual Battle We Dare Not Lose 33

3 The Big Question: Will Another Church Really Help? 41

4 Hope: Imperfect People Moving in the Right Direction 55

Part 2 Inside the Walls of Our Minds

5 Leverage: Making the Great Commission Doable 67

6 Confusion: Why Don't Our Churches Multiply? 75

7 Roadblocks: What Stands in Our Way? 83

8 Emotions: It Doesn't Feel Quite Right 99

Part 3 In Search of Scripture

9 Model: Jesus as a Church Planter 107

10 Possibility: Doing What Jesus Did 113

11 Failure and Success: Multiplication in the Early Church 123

12 Methods: What Would Paul Do? 127

13 Slogans: Statements of Mission and Purpose 135

14 Vision: What Shapes the New Church? 141

Part 4 Opportunity Is Where You Make It

15 Tenacity: Faith in an Age of Fear 149

16 Mission: Reaching People Where They Are 159

17 Education: Learning from America's Past 167

18 A Second Look: Emerging Urban Opportunities 179

Part 5 You Can Do This!

19 Fun: Church Multiplication Is Like Making Babies 193

20 Hardware: Coloring Outside the Lines 199

21 Equipping: How to Ready Your Church to Multiply 209

22 Costs: Multiplication When Resources Are Limited 219

23 Momentum: Managing that Most Important Management Factor 227

Part 6 Stand and Deliver

24 Expectations: Could Our Congregation Spawn a Movement? 237

25 Urgency: Why Today Is Pregnant with Opportunity 245

26D-Day: Will You Stay on the Sidelines? 249

Endnotes 252

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