Dave Ferguson

"Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father." - John 14:12Jesus calls us to something more-something greater. Not just good leadership. Not just growing churches. But a movement of multiplication that transforms lives, cities, and the world. In Good, Great, Greater, general editors Dave Ferguson and Jason Stewart, along with a team of trusted practitioners, invite you to step into a greater vision-one where churches move beyond adding to Level 5 multiplying, where disciples become disciple-makers, leaders reproduce leaders, and churches plant churches to the fourth generation and beyond. Through real stories, practical strategies, and thought-provoking insights, you'll learn how to embrace a new scorecard for success-one that measures both the qualitative and quantitative impact Jesus desires. You'll discover how healthy leaders, reproducing churches, and collaborative movements can spark Kingdom transformation. If you're ready to do more-and be better-this book will equip you to lead boldly, multiply effectively, and unleash greater Kingdom impact. Good, Great, Greater is more than a book-it's a call to action and an invitation to join a community with a cause. Are you ready to pursue the greater things? Good, Great, Greater AuthorsNoemi ChavezWill ChungDave FergusonJon FergusonTim HawksJosh HusmannDhati LewisTroy & Janet McMahonJay PathakJason SheppardJason Stewart

Expanding the mission of Jesus isn't a short-term sprint--it's a marathon. If you don't lead with health, you won't last. So how do healthy leaders start and grow movements? They multiply. Multiplication isn't about burning out in a flurry of activity. It's about leading in a way that is sustainable, healthy, and lasts for the next 10, 20, or even 50 years. There is an unstoppable force inside you, a movement waiting to be unleashed. Multiplier is your roadmap for playing the long game of Kingdom impact, ensuring you don't just start strong but finish well. In this book, you’ll discover how to: Make disciple-makers Build healthy spiritual communities Mobilize leaders in the coming generations Launch churches and organizations with strong foundations Monitor your relational, physical, mental, and spiritual health to strength over the long haul If you're ready to lead in a way that doesn't just grow your ministry, but sparks sustainable movements for decades to come, Multiplier is your guide. Don't just lead. Multiply.

Expanding the mission of Jesus isn't a short-term sprint--it's a marathon. If you don't lead with health, you won't last.So how do healthy leaders start and grow movements? They multiply.Multiplication isn't about burning out in a flurry of activity. It's about leading in a way that is sustainable, healthy, and lasts for the next 10, 20, or even 50 years.There is an unstoppable force inside you, a movement waiting to be unleashed. Multiplier is your roadmap for playing the long game of Kingdom impact, ensuring you don't just start strong but finish well.In this book, you’ll discover how to:Make disciple-makersBuild healthy spiritual communitiesMobilize leaders in the coming generationsLaunch churches and organizations with strong foundationsMonitor your relational, physical, mental, and spiritual health to strength over the long haulIf you're ready to lead in a way that doesn't just grow your ministry, but sparks sustainable movements for decades to come, Multiplier is your guide.Don't just lead. Multiply.

As the church and as a country, we've often neglected and avoided addressing the impact and ongoing reality of racism. We've been more focused on order than justice, more concerned with social media posturing than solidarity, more committed to judgment than repentance. But God's people are called to more. We need to lead the way to true racial healing, solidarity, and justice. Through enlightening history and eye-opening personal stories, Living Undivided will equip and empower you with the biblical, transformative tools you need to move from just hoping and wishing for racial justice to actionable change that makes a difference in your life and the lives of churches, neighborhoods, and cities.

IS OUR GOAL TO RAISE RELIGIOUS KIDS, OR ARE WE HOPING FOR SOMETHING MORE?Our kids are growing up in a mass church exodus. A life attending church and following religious rules isn't big enough to hold their attention-and why should it be? Do we want our kids to just go to church, or do we want them to truly follow Jesus? As Christian parents, most of us long for our children to know the God who loves them and who is able to work powerfully in their lives and in the lives of those around them.Missional leader and father Hugh Halter invites your family to live a bigger story-a story with the mission of God at its heart. With key tools and practical advice gleaned from Hugh's own parenting journey, Righteous Brood equips parents at all stages-and with all kinds of challenges-to nurture disciples of Jesus who live out his mission in the world.

What If You Could Change the World without Changing Your Daily Routine? When you’ve been transformed by God’s love, you can’t help but want others to experience the same grace and freedom. But how do you share it without scaring them away or offending them? For most Christians, “evangelism” is an intimidating word that suggests handing out tracts to strangers or doing other awkward things. But what if there was a more organic, more authentic way to share your faith with your friends, neighbors, and coworkers? Dave and Jon Ferguson have found five simple, straightforward practices that will allow any believer to do just that. And by consistently living them out, you can affect not just individual lives but your entire neighborhood and community—one person at a time.

Bak enhver helt står det en heltemaker! Markedet flommer over av bøker som skal gjøre leseren til en bedre leder, men ikke alle disse er forenlig med den typen lederskap som Jesus så forbilledlig modellerer. Alle ønsker å være en helt, men få forstår kraften i å være en som gjør helter! Med Jesu kraftfulle tjeneste som eksempel presenterer Heltemaker strategier, holdninger og fokus som utruster til tjeneste. Disse strategiene er altså tett på Jesu metode for å få nye ledere i funksjon. Enten du leder ti eller ti tusen, vil Heltemaker bidra til å endre kulturen i din organisasjon eller kirke. Du vil bli den sjeldne typen leder som gir avkall på egen heltestatus og heller investerer i andre, slik at de blir frigjort til tjeneste og sendt ut. Slik kan enormt mange flere nås med evangeliet og Guds rike fremmes. De fem fokusene er: Multiplikasjonstankegang Å se gaven og gi den rom Multiplisering av disipler Å få gaver i funksjon Fremme Guds rike

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.

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.

El lector aprenderá a generar un cambio real en su iglesia y comunidad mediante el desarrollo de habilidades prácticas para ayudar a otros a alcanzar su potencial de liderazgo. Descubra cómo activar los dones, ayudar a las personas a apropiarse de ellos y desarrollar un registro de logros simple para medir el progreso en la edificación del Reino.

I wish I had loved more. I wish I had been smarter about money. I wish I had thought about God more. We all have regrets about the past. Many of them come from our attempts to fulfill unmet longings. Dave and Jon Ferguson call this back and forth between longing and regret the Sorry Cycle--and they want to help us escape it. In Starting Over, Dave and Jon show us how to recognize specific regrets and then release them to God as we learn to see our regrets as opportunities to start over. Finally, we can see God redeem our regrets as he takes the worst things in our lives and uses them for a greater good. In this new edition, Dave and Jon provide an inspiring and never before published case study for achieving real life change. Your regrets don't need to keep you from the joy God has for your life. As you apply the recognize-release-redeem process to your financial, relational, and personal regrets, you will find new freedom in living out your God-given dreams. Fall in Love with Your Regrets It sounds impossible. How can we learn to love our mistakes and failures? Instead, we go over and over them in our mind. Could they ever bring us--or anyone else--good? Drawing from scientific research and biblical truths, Jon and Dave Ferguson give us tools to redeem our mistakes in five key areas: relationships, health, purpose, finances, and spirituality. Along the way, they teach us lifelong skills for getting unstuck when regret threatens to trap us again. We also learn how to help others escape the Sorry Cycle and experience the Starting Over Loop. It is possible to learn to love our regrets because through them we see God at work. We see that our weakness does not limit what God can do. Whatever regret is trapping you in the Sorry Cycle, God is big enough to redeem it. What could you do with a life beyond regret?

Let's face it. Church isn't working. We hear sermons about the abundant life Jesus promised, but how many of us are actually living it? How many of our churches are thriving? How many people in our congregations are experiencing God's blessings? Maybe it's time to call it quits.Quit church? Well, not exactly.Drawing from his experience coaching hundreds of churches toward true growth, Chris Sonksen calls on us to quit our casual, cultural commitment to church as we know it. No more half-hearted attempts to win the favor of God and other people by doing the right thing. No more doing things out of a sense of duty. Instead, Sonksen reveals the spiritual habits that release the blessings of God, both on each individual and on the church. He explains why we struggle to put these practices into action and gives practical solutions to move us forward into health, growth, and maturity.

Everybody wants to be a hero, but few understand the power of being a hero maker.In Hero Maker you will learn how to bring real change to your church and community by developing the practical skills to help others reach their leadership potential.Drawing on five powerful practices found in the ministry of Jesus, Hero Maker presents the key steps of apprenticeship that will build up other leaders and provides strategies for how you can activate gifts, help others take ownership, and develop a simple scorecard for measuring your kingdom-building progress.Besides rich insights from the Gospels, Hero Maker is packed with real-life ministry stories ranging from paid staff to volunteer leaders and from established churches to new church plants. A practical tool accompanies each of the five practices, with several illustrations for how to use it.Whether you lead ten people or ten thousand, Hero Maker will not only help you maximize your leadership, but in doing so you will also help shift today's church culture to a model of reproduction and multiplication. Authors Dave Ferguson (a Chicago pastor and church planter) and Warren Bird (an award-winning writer) make a compelling case that God's power and purpose are best revealed when we train and release others, who in turn do likewise.Become that rare breed of leader who brings change into our world by sacrificially investing in others who become the heroes. By becoming a hero maker, you will join a movement of influencers that are impacting hundreds, thousands and perhaps millions of people around the world.

In Hero Maker, you will learn how to bring real change to your church and community by developing the practical skills to help others reach their leadership potential.Drawing on five powerful practices found in the ministry of Jesus, Hero Maker presents the key steps of apprenticeship that will build up other leaders and provide strategies for how you can:activate the gifts of those around youhelp others take ownership of their missiondevelop a simple scorecard for measuring your kingdom-building progressWith rich insights from the Gospels, Hero Maker is packed with real-life ministry stories ranging from paid staff to volunteer leaders--from established churches to new church plants.Whether you lead ten people or ten thousand, Hero Maker will not only help you maximize your leadership impact; but, in doing so, you will also help shift today's church culture to a model of reproduction and multiplication.Chicago pastor and church planter Dave Ferguson and award-winning writer Warren Bird make a compelling case that God's power and purpose are best revealed when we train and release others to further advance the Kingdom of God.By becoming a hero maker and investing in others, you can join a movement of influencers that are impacting thousands of people around the world.Everybody wants to be a hero, but few understand the power of being a hero maker.

A guide to personal spiritual renewal for those who feel disconnected from God, faith and transcendent purpose. Drawing on the well-known story of the prodigal son, the author shows how most people set out with good intentions, only to find themselves floundering in what he calls "spiritual amnesia." He dares readers to accept a 30-day spiritual challenge by praying each day, "God, if you are real, make yourself real to me." Then he walks readers through the five crucial awakenings that take them from doubt and confusion to love, purpose and meaning. - Publisher

God's mission needs movement leaders. Jesus pioneered something completely new in human history—a dynamic missionary movement intent on reaching the world. His mission is as clear and as relevant today as in the days of the early church: to make disciples everywhere, baptizing them and teaching them to obey everything Jesus has commanded. But the potential of the church remains untapped. What does it take to lead movements that successfully carry out this mission? In Pioneering Movements, Steve Addison identifies what it takes to follow Jesus' example. Building on his previous books Movements That Change the World and What Jesus Started, he reveals the apostolic qualities and behaviors of biblical, historical, and contemporary pioneers who can guide church and ministry leaders today. This is a book for those who are called to embrace the mission-driven work that Jesus and his disciples began—making disciples of all nations, in all places.