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

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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.

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.

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.

Pastor Moore reads his Bible and learns that small churches planted all over do the Will of God. This well written book teaches us all that planting churches grows christianity and develops close knit Christian Comminity.

I sang in the choir in a mega-church called Saddleback and discovered it was like driving on a freeway. We all wanted to go to the same place, there were lots of us, but we seldom communicated. On the other hand, a small church in Oregon helped me learn a lot, and I developed life long friendships that still function 20 years later. At the mega-church, I shook hands with the pastor once. In a small church, I spent an hour with the Pastor once a week.

Moore writes an easy-to-understand book. His idea of planting churches is well reasoned and comes mostly from Scripture. "Mostly" because he also writes from experience. His HOPE chapel has helped start more than 200 churches all over.

While I didn't see it mentioned, a poor economy is often a way of sending lots of good people into the field of ministry---for which Moore's book is indispensable.

Don Paul, author/publisher [...]

Our state, like so many others, finds itself in a huge conundrum over the future of our public school system. The overall ratings are some of the lowest in the nation, naturally the morale is right there on the bottom also, yet there are so many good people that give their lives to the education of our children. Everyone has an opinion as to what we could do to fix the problem, but the bottom line is "If the Lord is not in the building of the house, the builders labor in vain". I am reminded that if we Christians are not in the mix...it is all in vain. Ralph Moore's book gives you not only biblical reasons as to why we are called to do what the first disciples did, but he also arms you with tons of practical steps and "how to's" to just go and do it! I really appreciate how he touched on so many scenarios, breaking through even the "modern day" mind set of what starting a ministry should look like. Even for us seasoned church planters, apostles, mentors...just when you think you have all the bases covered, Moore pulls another inspired idea out of his hat that makes multiplying your church even more achievable. Easy, interesting, read...if you care about the lost, you must read this book.