Bird Warren - Hero Maker: Five Essential Practices for Leaders to Multiply Leaders

Dave Ferguson and Warren Bird are leaders of leaders. Hero Maker will not only impact you; it will impact the leaders you are raising up.

Mark Batterson, author, The Circle Maker; lead pastor, National Community Church

Dave Ferguson and Warren Bird are a great leadership combination of church praxis and leadership research. Hero Maker inspires a leadership-development approach in a fresh yet ancient way.

Dave Gibbons, CVO, Xealots.org, Newsong; author, Small Cloud Rising

If my friend Dave Ferguson wrote it, Im going to marinate in the wisdom of every page. And when you add Dr . Warren Bird to the writing mix, Hero Maker becomes an indispensable resource for pastors and church planters.

Derwin L. Gray, founding and lead pastor, Transformation Church; author, The High Definition Leader

If youre looking to raise and empower great leaders, Dave Fergusons new book, Hero Maker, is packed with valuable insights. Each of the five principles Dave unveils is practical, doable, and helpful to every leader.

Craig Groeschel, pastor, Life.Church; author, Divine Direction

When I am around Dave, I get the feeling that I can achieve just about anything. Aided by researcher Warren Bird, Hero Maker is built squarely on decades of the experience of someone who is proving to be one of the significant apostolic leaders in our day.

Alan Hirsch, award-winning author; founder, 100 Movements, 5Q Collective, and Forge

Hero Maker is a must read for pastors and leaders serious about moving from growing a church to the courageous call to multiply churches. I know few people who have been used to catalyze church multiplication like my friend Dave Ferguson.

Mark Jobe, lead pastor, New Life Community ChurchChicago; author; founder, New Life Centers

Jesus spent his life multiplying his leadership, and billions of lives were changed for eternity. If you do what Hero Maker says, you will be able to do the same thing.

Dr . Ajai Lall, director, Central India Christian Mission

Are you tired of small gains through addition? Do you long to see your life and ministry get to the multiplication stage? Dave Ferguson reached these goals by being a hero maker. Read Hero Maker and learn from one of the best.

Dr . James MacDonald, senior pastor, Harvest Bible Chapel; author, Act Like Men and Vertical Church

Jesus made it clear that to take the gospel to the ends of the earth, we must make disciples who make disciples who make disciples. If you need practical help with disciple-making, read Hero Maker.

Joby Martin, lead pastor, The Church of Eleven22

The most important feature of Hero Maker is that Dave and Warren turn the term hero inside-out and upside-down. In their hands, hero becomes servant of God, servant of the gospel, servant of others, and servant of the world. Read and learn how to make heroes of others.

Scot McKnight, Julius R. Mantey Professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary

Read this book! The message of Hero Maker will change not just you but every leader you raise up.

James Meeks, senior pastor, Salem Baptist Church of Chicago

Dave Ferguson and Warren Bird help us unpack five essential practices to grow our leadership and the leaders we are mentoring. Hero Maker is for every influencer who knows that the harvest is plentiful, but the workersand leadersare few.

Tony Morgan, founder and lead strategist, The Unstuck Group

Dave Ferguson and Warren Bird have a heart for the church and a head for knowledge. In Hero Maker, they are two great guides for every leader.

John Ortberg, senior pastor, Menlo Church; author, Id Like You More If You Were More Like Me

As long as Ive known Dave Ferguson, he has always used a kingdom scoreboard to measure both his life and his ministry. In Hero Maker, Dave lays out five simple and powerful practices that will help anyone who applies them become a more effective hero maker and ministry multiplier.

Larry Osborne, pastor and author, North Coast Church

At last: the core message of the Exponential conference boiled down to five simple, practical, powerful practices. Start here!

Andy Stanley, author, communicator, and founder of North Point Ministries

Dave Ferguson has raised up an amazing number of leaders, church planters, and pastors. He has an unmatched heart and passion for multiplication, and Im thankful for him. Read Hero Maker to find out how he does it.

Ed Stetzer, Billy Graham Distinguished Chair, Wheaton College

Hero Maker offers every leader a chance to catch the biblical principles that multiply leadership impact and create sustainable momentum for long-term kingdom advance. Get this book. Inhale this message, and lets breathe out heroes!

Danielle Stickland, speaker, author, advocate

As a leader of a multicultural church in the inner city of Detroit, I find leadership development to be one of the greatest ways to make a real impact in both my church and the community were called to serve. Hero Maker will steer church leaders and laity alike into practices that make our lives greater than what they could ever be in the silos we often unintentionally create.

Harvey Carey, senior pastor, Citadel of Faith Covenant Church

In this fantastic book, one of my mentors, Dave Ferguson, not only addresses the heart behind being a hero maker rather than a hero, but he gives us practical steps to implement a plan. Challenge and change your leadership today. Get this book!

Lonce B. Crump Jr., founder and pastor, Renovation Church; author, Renovate

I am grateful for books like the one youre holding. It gently presses while it superbly encourages. Dave Ferguson lays out Gods plans and calls us to walk in them.

Matt Chandler, lead pastor, The Village Church

Dave Ferguson makes proven biblical principles accessible to you and your team in five simple practices. If youre looking to multiply your impact, start with Hero Maker.

Carey Nieuwhof, founding pastor, Connexus Church

I have known and respected Dave Ferguson for almost twenty years. In my view, Hero Maker is his best book yet.

Bill Hybels, senior pastor, Willow Creek Church; founder, Global Leadership Summit

Other Books in the Exponential Series

AND: The Gathered and Scattered Church, Hugh Halter and Matt Smay

Barefoot Church: Serving the Least in a Consumer Culture, Brandon Hatmaker

DiscipleShift: Five Steps That Help Your Church to Make Disciples Who Make Disciples, Jim Putman and Bobby Harrington with Robert E. Coleman

Exponential: How You and Your Friends Can Start a Missional Church Movement, Dave Ferguson and Jon Ferguson

For the City: Proclaiming and Living Out the Gospel, Darrin Patrick and Matt Carter with Joel A. Lindsey

Its Personal: Surviving and Thriving on the Journey of Church Planting, Brian Bloye and Amy Bloye

Missional Moves: 15 Tectonic Shifts That Transform Churches, Communities, and the World, Rob Wegner and Jack Magruder

On the Verge: A Journey into the Apostolic Future of the Church, Alan Hirsch and Dave Ferguson

Sifted: Pursuing Growth through Trials, Challenges, and Disappointments, Wayne Cordeiro with Francis Chan and Larry Osborne

Small Matters: How Churches and Parents Can Raise Up World-Changing Children, Greg Nettle and Jimmy Mellado

Transformation: Discipleship That Turns Lives, Churches, and the World Upside Down