Steve Murrell - The Multiplication Challenge: A Strategy to Solve Your Leadership Shortage

Steve Murrell exudes and models leadership. Ive learned much from him, and you will too!

ED STETZER

Billy Graham Distinguished Chair and Professor, Wheaton College

Executive Director, Billy Graham Center

I like to read leadership books by people who are leading, and that is why I highly recommend The Multiplication Challenge by Steve Murrell. Steve redefines leadership and brings it back to a biblical foundation for how leaders should think, act, grow, and multiply. Writing from his experience of leading Victory, which has grown to more than 85,000 Christ-followers, gives this book enough credibility that every leader should buy a copy!

DAVE FERGUSON

Author of Finding Your Way Back to God

Lead Visionary for NewThing

Steve Murrell is an exceptional leader who demonstrates deep humility and a will to succeed. He has a rare combination of a strong mind and a resilient heart. Steve spent the past thirty years developing leaders in a nation once foreign to him, and these leaders have in turn continued to raise thousands across the globe. I am a grateful recipient of Steves leadership. I believe this book provides a solution to transformational challenges for the future and is a profitable read for anyone in business and politics who purposes to leave a leadership legacy.

RACHEL ONG

Founder and Chief Executive, ROHEI

Executive Producer, Cozeh

For over two decades now, Pastor Steve Murrell has quietly taught me significant lessons in leadership and in life. There are many principles we can learn from this book, but what really stood out for me is this: that the heart of leadership is humility and service. Steve has lived it, mastered it, and shared it. I recommend this book as a must-read for everyone looking to inspire and empower others to lead.

ERIC ALTAMIRANO

Head Basketball Coach, National University Bulldogs

There are dream leaders, theory leaders, and action leaders. Steve Murrell is an action leader with proven fruit of his leadership. He is a level-five leader in the church today. This book is pure gold, read and act upon it.

FRANK DAMAZIO

Pastor, City Bible Church

Chairman, Ministers Fellowship International

Here is a gem on Christian leadership essentials from a servant-leader practitioner I admire. Victory has often been asked why it has so many strong leaders. Heres their big story with many little stories. I will keep coming back to this book as a resource for leadership training thats biblically grounded, inspiring, and practical.

TIM D. GENER, PhD

President and Professor of Theology, Asian Theological Seminary

This is the book Ive been waiting for Steve Murrell to write. My wife and I also served as church planters in Manila for eighteen years, so we watched firsthand the growth and expansion of Every Nation. Steve and his team are building big churches around the world because theyre building big people. Big people know how to serve with courage, despite the circumstances and temptations. Steve and Deborah have modeled the way, and Im delighted that theyre now sharing it with all of us in print.

DR. CHUCK QUINLEY

President, Emerge Missions

The Multiplication Challenge is a practical but biblical guide on servant leadership. From Nashville to Manila and other points of mission, Pastor Steve dramatically tells true stories demonstrating how a leader ought to think, act, listen, and relate. Shored up by apt quotations, he deftly weaves principle and practice to drive home the message that leadership is serving in humility, not in authoritarianism; setting an example, not sporting a title; training and equipping others to lead, not perpetuating ones self in power. Pastors, missionaries, church workers, officials, lay leaders, and those who believe that leadership should be tethered to selfless service will find this book basic yet exceptional.

RUBEN T. REYES

Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court (retired)

Vice President, Judicial Council, United Methodist Church

When Steve and Deborah started their work in the Philippines, our families were friends, and I watched with interest how Steve led with great vision and humility. Each time our families were together, I learned important leadership principles from him. Reading this book reminded me of those times together. This book is like sitting down and having a conversation about leadership with a man who speaks not only with expertise, but with a heart and passion to do Gods work. It was a great privilege to watch him lead.

EDDIE LYONS

Senior Pastor, High Street Baptist Church

President, Baptist Bible Fellowship International

Leadership is inherent in every single one of us. Beyond an ability to lead, it is a capacity to choose the right path, inspire passion, and solicit compassion. Pastor Steve will rouse the leader in you through this book. My own life is a testament to his exemplary leadership.

ALFRED ROMUALDEZ

Mayor, City of Tacloban, Philippines

Steve powerfully tackles one of the biggest problems for churches in our time todaythat of raising enough leaders who will faithfully take on the Great Commission. He is not just writing from theory, but from actual implementation of these principles. I strongly recommend that leaders read this book. May the insights and perspectives offered here awaken churches and renew in us a commitment to multiplyto make disciples who will make disciples for the glory of God.

DR. PETER TAN-CHI

Senior Pastor, Christs Commission Fellowship

Steve Murrell didnt just start a church, he started a movement. In this book, Steve shares how rapid growth exposed a leadership crisis, causing his church to radically reset their growth goals from 75,000 to 5,000. The way he unpacks practical leadership development and discipleship methods for future leaders makes this book a must-read!

ROB HOSKINS

President, OneHope, Inc.

Board Chair, Oral Roberts University

Oftentimes, Christian leaders are so keen to make disciples, they forget a foundational component of the disciple-making process: first developing good leaders who are equipped to make good disciples. In The Multiplication Challenge, Steve Murrell shows how important intentional leadership development is to the making of disciples, as well as to the growth of churches and ministries. The Multiplication Challenge gives us the tools to develop a leadership culture, the essentials of the leadership-development process, and guidelines for leaving a leadership legacy. All those involved in the Great Commissiona task of making disciples of all the people groups of our worldneed to read this book!

LARRY W. CALDWELL, PhD

Academic Dean, Sioux Falls Seminary

Director of Training and Strategy, Converge Worldwide

DEDICATION

To the unknown, unrecognized, under-honored leaders

who quietly build men and women, rather than monuments

The Multiplication Challenge

A Strategy to Solve Your Leadership Shortage

Copyright 2016 by Steve Murrell and William Murrell

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