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When asked, most churches say that making disciples who make disciples is still their biggest weakness. How can this be if making disciples is the core mission of the Church? One Eighty: A Return to Disciple-Making unpacks five reasons, each of which describes a shift we need to make.FROM REACHING TO MAKING: From simply growing the size of our ministry or church, to making mature disciples.FROM INFORMING TO EQUIPPING: From simply giving information, to holistically equipping every follower of Jesus.FROM ATTENDING TO ATTACHING: From calling people to attend programs and events, to leading people to truly attach to God and others.FROM STRIVING TO THRIVING: From unhealthy striving, to thriving as spirit-empowered disciples and emotionally healthy leaders.FROM ACCUMULATING TO DEPLOYING: From merely accumulating people into our buildings and programs, to deploying disciple-making disciples to the ends of the earth.Building on biblical foundations for who we are as disciples of Jesus and his Church, One Eighty: A Return to Disciple-Making both inspires and equips. With practical teaching and guided processing questions, you and your team will be able to develop your own working plan. This book is for anyone who wants to get back to what Jesus saved and called us to be and do.

The Empowerment Factor: Increasing Your Personal Multiplication Capacity is a transformative book that unveils a powerful approach to multiplying your life and making a lasting impact on others. With the help of a simple self-diagnostic tool, this book empowers disciple-makers to exponentially increase their kingdom impact. By combining spiritual and practical truths, it equips readers to elevate their personal empowerment and become truly empowering leaders. Whether you're a Christ-follower or a ministry leader, this book offers principles that can dramatically enhance your kingdom impact. Discover a new approach to disciple-making and leadership development, and awaken your potential to empower others. This resource serves as a wake-up call and an equipping tool, helping you reach new heights of spiritual empowerment and fulfilling your purpose of empowering others.

Multipliers embrace a scorecard that prioritizes releasing and sending over accumulating and growing.Are you sensing that something's just not right about our addiction, and possibly idolatry, to our accumulation cultures that produce cultural Christians?Multipliers...take their cues from Jesus and seek to be fruitful and multiply. They are intentional about Jesus' "go and make disciples" command (Matthew 28: 18-20) and fully embrace the leverage that comes from building capacity for disciple making through the multiplication of healthy, reproducing churches.Multipliers: Leading Beyond Addition, addresses the important questions needed to help you become the Multiplier you are called to be! Questions like: How do I know if I'm embracing the wrong scorecard for success?How do I develop a vision for multiplication that changes my church and me?How do I create a culture of multiplication that values sending over accumulating?What tensions will I face in moving from Accumulator to Multiplier?How do I move from being a hero to becoming a hero-maker?How do I turn good intentions into action? If you're asking these questions, this new book is for you! Multipliers combines the best of Exponential's multiplication-focused content into one single handbook for aspiring Multipliers who are committed to seeing the Kingdom advance!

ARE YOU LEAVING THE LEGACY OF A HERO MAKER?Hero makers have a pattern of investing in others to bring forth their full potential. This releases them to invest in even more leaders. Essentially, they are disciple makers who make other disciple makers. Their scorecards are measured not by what they do or accumulate but by how they invest in others--and release their potential.In this book, Dave Ferguson and Todd Wilson look at the essential characteristics of a hero maker and unpack at a deeper level the five hero-making practices identified in the book Hero Maker (by Dave Ferguson and Warren Bird): Multiplication ThinkingPermission GivingDisciple MultiplyingGift ActivatingKingdom BuildingThis book focuses on the life and memory of Bob Buford, who was a true hero maker. Bob leaves a hero-making legacy of thousands of hero makers.The Legacy of a Hero Maker is for pastors, leaders, and other disciple makers. After reading it, you will walk away with clarity on how you can help others become hero makers for the Kingdom!Dave Ferguson is Lead Pastor of Community Christian Church and co-founder of Exponential. He also provides visionary leadership for NewThing.Todd Wilson is President and CEO of Exponential (exponential.org), a community of activists devoted to church multiplication.

In this book, Exponential co-founder Todd Wilson and Will Mancini pour gasoline on the already blazing church multiplication conversation. This book is the sequel to Spark: Creating a Culture of Multiplication (2015) and Becoming a Level Five Multiplying Church (2016). Wilson and Mancini seek to help church leaders turn their aspirations and good intentions for multiplication into compelling visions with actionable strategies. The book is built on a solid foundation of strategic planning, looking through the lens of multiplication.

Becoming a Level Five Multiplying Church continues a conversation started in the Exponential book Spark: Igniting a Culture of Multiplication, drilling down into more detail focusing on how we can each play our part in moving the needle on church multiplication. While Spark introduced these three core elements of culture, in this book Todd and Dave press more deeply into how we live them out. In this expanded version, Alan Hirsch also provides an additional chapter and comments throughout the book.Focusing on the specifics of helping churches identify where they are on the multiplication scale (Levels 1 - 5) and what's needed to become a Level 5 multiplying church, Todd and Dave champion multiplication and equip future church multipliers to move beyond the prevailing addition-growth scorecards. The bottom line, the authors say, is that we need to rethink the operating system that's producing growth but not producing multiplication--and aim for more healthy Kingdom growth that's focused on multiplication.

IS YOUR CHURCH MOBILIZING BELIEVERS INTO THEFULLNESS OF GOD'S CALL?The Mobilization Flywheel contains a powerful new framework which every Christian and church needs to implement in their lives and ministries. Larry Walkemeyer and Todd Wilson reveal the kind of church that will empower believers to become everyday missionaries where they live, work, and play.The authors describe how every believer can live a fully mobilized life as they serve in the sweet spot of their calling. They assert that most believers can start gatherings, and many of these gatherings can become new churches.Today churches want to make a greater kingdom impact. Believers are longing to live out their kingdom calling. Our culture is waiting for new expressions of the church. This resource offers a model for moving forward, a model which can create ever-increasing momentum for the multiplication of the church. It's called the mobilization flywheel.Identify the mobilization starting point, so you can better...Mobilize believers.Mobilize groups.Mobilize church.Engage this resource on a personal level through the authors' discussion questions. They help you process how you can mobilize those around you to increase your impact. Gain clarity on common friction points (called flywheel "drags") and ways to increase mobilization (called flywheel "aids"). Plus, learn how to articulate your "minimum ecclesiology" so that you can set believers, groups, and churches into mobilization overdrive.The wheel has started turning. Are you ready?LARRY WALKEMEYER is Lead Pastor of Light & Life Church in Long Beach, California, which is a multi-ethnic church-planting church. He also serves as Director of Equipping and Spiritual Engagement for Exponential.TODD WILSON is Co-founder and CEO of Exponential. Todd is engaged in leading-edge initiatives to help catalyze movements of healthy, multiplying churches and has written multiple books with that aim.

"In SPARK, Todd Wilson gives the church a practical and powerful vision of what the body of Christ can resemble when it pursues exponential growth through multiplying believers and churches. I'm thankful for Todd and this helpful book."-Ed Stetzer, Executive Director of the Billy Graham Center"The book is utterly brilliant. I love it. This little eBook is more dangerous to our prevailing mindsets than its size and accessibility suggest."-Alan Hirsch, Award-winning Writer on Missional MovementsFounder of Forge Mission Training Network and Future Travelers"Reading Spark filled my eyes with tears. Where was this book when I restarted my church? What a difference it might have made. Folks this is the first book that will go on my classics list."-Bill Easum, Ministry Veteran, 21st Century Strategies"I found SPARK startling, eye opening, like someone had awakened me with a splash of cold water in the face. I predict it will create a lot of discussion and provide a pathway for those who want to change from a growth-addition motif to a growth-multiplication approach."-Bill Hull, Author of Jesus Christ Disciple Maker, The Disciple Making Pastor, The Disciple Making Church"Danger Alert. Todd Wilson's Spark will challenge your definition of church growth and church success. It's a game-changing, paradigm-shifting, disruptive book that will rock you to the core about how to think and do church."-Jim Tomberlin, Founder, MultiSite Solutions

WALK WITH MILLENNIALS AND DISCOVER THEIR UNIQUE CALLINGThe Millennial generation is becoming the largest living generation. Imagine the impact this generation can have when they understand their unique calling. In Millennials Calling, Paul and Derek guide you along the path of walking with them as they take Jesus into every nook and cranny of society.As a Millennial leader and a seasoned pastor, Paul and Derek present leaders with time-tested and relevant tools. Learn from them as they unpack five practical ideas for walking with Millennials as you help them discover and engage their unique calling. Gain major insights, principles, and specific tools to guide your thinking as you lead Millennials.Learn how to build on a foundation of discipleship as you help Millennials understand whose they are. Save yourself the frustration of trying to lead Millennials without guidance. Learn how to equip this generation to truly engage in their local church. This book will leave you inspired and equipped with new ideas to employ as you walk alongside of Millennials.Millennials Calling guides you to discover ways to help this generation find their true identity and calling so they can have a greater global impact.- DAVE FERGUSON, Lead Pastor, Community Christian Church;Lead Visionary, NewThingA timely and needed resource. Every pastor I know is trying make disciples of Millennials, but this means learning to connect with them. Derek and Paul's book provides churches with ways to bridge the gap.- RON EDMONDSON, CEO, Leadership NetworkPAUL SOHN is founder of QARA, a leadership coach, and the author of the best-selling book Quarter-Life Calling. Paul is passionate about walking individuals into their unique calling and he currently resides in Orange County, California.DEREK BELL has served as a university professor, a church staff leader, and a business leader. He now leads Made for More, Mosaic Strategy Group, and The Buford Library. Derek is passionate about seeing men and women discover and engage in their unique calling. He is husband to Jennifer and dad to Macy, Parker, and Grayson in Brentwood, Tennessee.