How to Multiply Your Church: The Most Effective Way to Grow God's Kingdom [Paperback]

Ralph Moore (Author), Ed Stetzer (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 14, 2009

Your church can multiply--that is, it can reproduce itself. 

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 Ralph's earlier book, "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.

Editorial Reviews

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While others grow Godzilla-sized churches, Ralph quietly sets out to multiply and release churches to the ends of the earth.  For that reason, he is one of my heroes.  Neil Cole, Founder and Director of Church Multiplication Associates  Author of Organic Church, Organic Leadership and Search and Rescue

I know no more effective current model as a pastoral advocate for and dynamic practitioner of church planting than Ralph Moore.  Jack W. Hayford, Chancellor of The King's Seminary

Leaders who hunger for reaching another level of ministry impact will want to read and aply the principles found in How to Multiply Your Church.  Ed Stetzer, Director of Lifeway's Research and Lifeway's Missiologist in Residence   Author of Breaking the Missional Code and Comeback Churches

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 6 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

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Regal (August 14, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0830751335
• ISBN-13: 978-0830751334
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #632,914 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ralph Moore is co-pastor of Hope Chapel Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii and founder of Hope Chapel in Hermosa Beach, California. His disciplemaking and church multiplication are responsible for birthing more than 700 churches worldwide.

He and his wife, Ruby, besides being church planters are happy parents and grandparents. Ralph spends much of his time traveling the world challenging pastors and church leaders with a simple biblical model for multiplying disciples and churches.

Recent travels have been in Japan, Mongolia, Nepal, Myanmar, France, Greece and Ukraine.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Must read, February 5, 2011

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This is a practical down to earth must read. Church is God's idea. This book reminds us of God's way of reaching people through a multiplying church.

5.0 out of 5 stars Give it away, December 1, 2010

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Church planting is the best evangelism. Ralph speaks from experience and true to his calling. This book will educate, inspire and motivate you to change your efforts in fulfilling the great commission. I understand this book has been translated into Mongolian and another language and utilized around the world. I gave a copy of this book to a pastor in Ghana, West Africa and returned a year later to find him utilizing cell groups and empowering new pastors to go on church planting missions, much like is described in the book of Acts. I gave another copy to a pastor from Kenya and I look forward to seeing the paradigm shift when I see him in a year. I highly recommend this book to read and be challenged and to get extra copies to share.

4.0 out of 5 stars a hopeful outlook and full of energy, April 22, 2010

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Leigh Warmbrand (Newport News, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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How to Multiply Your Church by Ralph Moore is a hopeful and inspiring and energetic book on church planting and church growth. The author's purpose is to show us the history, need, and practical aspects of birthing new churches today. The basic premise is to train and equip each person of the congregation and release them into ministry they are gifted and called to serve. Pastor Moore provides biblical, historical and theological reasons and cultural necessities of obeying the Great Commission and being on mission in your local community as a newly birthed church. By training and releasing people into doing the work of the church (Eph 4:11-12), the church will multiply - a movement of church mulitiplication will begin. This book is not church growth for sustaining sake or a program (although it may bring revival to an older congregation), but it is to wage spiritual warfare in evangelism and advance the gospel and be salt and light to a hard world. The author provides guidelines to deal with "bucks, buildings, and brains" but cautions that each person must assess their situation as unique - there is no "one method fits all" approach. Ultimately, it is not a program-based approach but relying on the Spirit and breaking existing programs and paradigms to bring the gospel to needed areas. It is a recommended book, giving hope and calling us to the urgency of reaching out and obeying the Great Commission.

This book was provided to me by Regal Books. I was not required to write a positive review.