Multiplication thinking means shifting your focus from your own leadership to multiplying and developing other leaders. When you learn how to invest your time and resources to multiply leaders, you're able to more effectively build God's ministry - not
just your own - and maximize the gifts and resources God has given you as a leader.
This book provides you with all the principles you need to begin thinking in terms of multiplication, and equips you with invaluable tools - like the "Dream Napkin" - to apply multiplication thinking to your personal ministry. You'll start maximizing
your ministry efforts immediately with multiplication thinking!
Permission Giving means seeing the leadership potential in those around you, and giving them permission to engage in leadership opportunities. It means saying "yes" to their potential, to their gifts, and to the way God is working in them. When
you lead with a "yes," you give others a platform to fully engage in God's mission.
In this book, you'll learn what permission giving can look like in your ministry, why we are often afraid to give permission, and how to shift your default response from "no" to "yes." With practical tools like "ICNU conversations," you'll be equipped
to implement permission giving in your ministry with remarkable results!
Once you learn multiplication thinking, you can teach others how to think the same way. Disciple multiplying means making disciples who make more disciples. When you begin doing discipleship in this way, you extend your impact far beyond your
church or city.
This section of the book is the most crucial, because making disciples is at the heart of the ministry God has given us. We'll show you how to make disciples who make disciples based on Jesus' own ministry with the 5 steps of apprenticeship.
Many leaders are simply trying to fill slots in their ministry, but hero makers are all about gift activating. This means developing the gifts that God has given people and sending them out for ministry. Activating the gifts of others enhances your own
ministry and creates opportunity beyond your ministry.
In this section, you'll learn what it means to commission leaders for ministry and the two key components of gift activation. God blesses your ministry when you affirm the gifts that he has given and commission leaders for the mission he calls them to.
It's important to think about how to grow your church, but the only thing that ultimately counts is advancing God's kingdom. Kingdom builders shift their focus from measuring attendance to measuring how effective their disciples are. Kingdom
building is the only way to have a successful ministry - in the way that God defines success - how much his kingdom is advanced.
This final principle of hero making challenges you to ask yourself, "How will we multiply God's kingdom?" And this book will provide you with powerful kingdom-centered multiplication practices and tools. We'll also teach you two ways to measure kingdom
building so that your ministry never stops being effective.