Ralph Moore - How to Multiply Your Church: The Most Effective Way to Grow

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HOW TO MULTIPLY YOUR CHURCH

Ralph Moore shares his lifetime of experience in multiplying churches and his insights into what God is doing around the world in sparking church-planting movements. I read this book in one sitting. Ralph has a way of drawing you in, winning you over and pointing the way forward in multiplying disciples, leaders and churches.

Steve Addison

Director of Church Resource Ministries, Australia

Author, Movements That Change the World

There are very few people in America qualified to write a book about multiplying churches. Ralph Moore is one of the few. While others grow Godzilla-sized churches, Ralph quietly sets out to multiply and release leaders and churches to the ends of the earth. For that reason, he is one of my heroes.

Neil Cole

Founder and Director, Church Multiplication Associates

Author, Organic Church, Organic Leadership and Search and Rescue

This book will inspire you with Ralph Moores heartbeat for church planting, but more importantly with Gods desire to multiply churches around the world. This is a book about vision and hope for reaching a world for Jesus Christ. You will be stirred to believe in God-shaped possibilities for multiplying congregations and even church-planting movements. You will find practical, down-to-earth advice written in a winsome, engaging way. Youll love this book, just like I did.

Joel Comiskey, Ph.D.

Founder, Joel Comiskey Group

Author, Planting Churches That Reproduce

There is hardly any church of any type, denomination or size that could not learn from this book. Through examples from his own experience and clear application of biblical principles, Ralph leads us back to the future. The answers are not in sterile models and methods but rather in dynamic movements. As he so eloquently describes it, the New Testament Church is not the primitive Church but the prototype.

Tony and Felicity Dale

Founders, The Karis Group

Authors, The Rabbit and the Elephant

Ralph Moore again demonstrates why he is one of the leading voices in the missional movement. How to Multiply Your Church addresses a key oversight in many of the church-planting conversations: the multiplication strategy of the church. This book could become a standard for students, church planters, pastors and leaders who believe God can radically change the landscape of our world through His Church.

Dr. Rodney A. Harrison

Director of Doctoral Studies, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Author, Seven Steps to Church Planting and Spin-off Churches

The practical wisdom and no-nonsense frankness of Ralph Moores leadership style shines throughout this book. He is a twenty-first century church planter who has found how to lead with a mindset and capability consistent with the Holy Spirits tactics in the New Testament. I know no more effective current model as a pastoral advocate for and dynamic practitioner of church planting than him.

Jack W. Hayford

Chancellor, The Kings Seminary

Ralph is one of the premier practitioners of church planting in the English-speaking world. You will be encouraged by this book, which takes the unnecessary complexity out of the process and adds fun and excitement to your Kingdom expansion adventure.

David Housholder

Church Planter, Robinwood Church of Huntington Beach, California

Author, Light Your Church on Fire Without Burning It Down

Few practitioners could have written on this subject with such clarity, putting the dream of reproduction within reach of every pastor who dares nurture the thought. Ralph gently but firmly makes the case that health ought to lead to reproduction. This book is brilliant in its simplicity. It is not a call to strategy or tactics but an invitation to faith and action. Though intensely personal, the fate of thousands rests on this decision: Will I allow the church I pastor to multiply? Ralph Moore dismantles our objections and gives us every reason to say yes.

Rod Koop

Facilitator, Foursquare Church Multiplication

Packing decades of experience into one unique wallop, Ralph Moore stretches the boundaries of church-growth thinking through the genius of brilliant and simple innovations set forth in a refreshing can do spirit. Learn how your church, no matter what size, can seize divine momentum and sustain exponential multi-generational impact.

Norman Nakanishi

Senior Pastor, Grace Bible Church, Pearl City, Hawaii

U.S. National Leadership Team, Every Nation Family of Churches

Ralph Moore has written an intriguing book to tell us how to multiply a church in the most effective way. He was a student of mine in the 1970s and we have been friends for the past 30 years, and now he has written a book to point us toward the Great Commissionto go and make disciples of all nations. May God use this book to strengthen churches everywhere.

Elmer L. Towns

Cofounder, Liberty University

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Baker Books edition published 2014

ISBN 978-1-4412-2422-4

Previously published by Regal Books

Ebook edition originally created 2011

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Multiplication changes things. In one of the classic episodes of that cultural phenomenon called Star Trek, the crew of the Enterprise encountered some lovable little fuzzballs called Tribbles. The crew fell in love with these cute little creaturesthat is, until they overwhelmed the vessel through rapid multiplication. Tribbles multiplied faster than rabbits. Multiplication changes things.