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Dave and Jon Ferguson are two of the most gifted and innovative church planters I know. Their new book, Exponential, will give you practical steps and essential spiritual insights to plant a life giving and reproducing church. --Craig Groeschel, Pastor of Lifechurch.tv; and Author of ItDave and Jon Ferguson work on reproducing leaders and catalyzing movements has the great potential to awaken the sleeping giant of the American Chruch. It is a timely word for our generation of church leaders. --Matt Carter, The Austin Stone Community ChurchDave and Jon Ferguson are the poster children for ministry reproduction. It's what they live and breathe. Their story of the lessons learned launching Community Christian Church and the New Thing Network will inspire and instruct anyone who longs for a genuinely reproducing ministry. But be forewarned, reading this book might do more. Who knows, it just might unleash the unique ministry dream God has birthed in your own heart as well. --Larry Osborne, Pastor and Author, North Coast ChurchJon & Dave Ferguson have been pictures and pillars to every young church planter of the kind of courage, faith, and sacrifice that is needed to start a missional reproducing movement in the Church. They are passionate about helping people find their way back to God and this book should be required reading to anyone that has ever wondered if they should start a church. If you are sitting with a dream - read at your own risk - but know that this book will definitely push you to take the necessary step of faith which will unlock the greatest adventure of your life. --Jeanne Stevens. Lead Pastor, Soul City ChurchTo the pastor, priest, or peasant, we all want to be a part of something bigger than ourselves. If you're tired of God just for yourself, and desire to see your life and your church find it's place on God's magnificent global renaissance, this book is for you. --Hugh Halter, Author of AND: The Gathered and Scattered Church

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Exponential is filled with practical examples, compelling vision, and inspiring stories. It will provoke you to reproduce everything at a time when so many churches are not even adding. Jon and Dave are not just theorists. I’ve seen their ministry up close, and they deeply care that people find their way back to God. -- Ed StetzerDave and Jon Ferguson are the poster children for ministry reproduction. It’s what they live and breathe. Their story of the lessons learned launching Community Christian Church and the NewThing Network will inspire and instruct anyone who longs for a genuinely reproducing ministry. But be forewarned, reading this book might do more. Who knows, it just might unleash the unique ministry dream God has birthed in your own heart as well. -- Larry OsborneWhether pastor, priest, or peasant, we all want to be a part of something bigger than ourselves. If you’re tired of having God just for yourself, and desire to see your life and your church find their place in God’s magnificent global renaissance, this book is for you. -- Hugh HalterJon and Dave Ferguson have been pictures to every young church-planter of the courage, faith, and sacrifice needed to start a missional reproducing movement in the church. They are passionate about helping people find their way back to God, and this book should be required reading for anyone who has ever wondered if they should start a church. If you are sitting with a dream, read this book at your own risk, but know that it will definitely push you to take the necessary step of faith which will unlock the greatest adventure of your life. -- Jeanne StevensThe church is a major part of God’s heart for bringing his people back to his love. This book helps us to return to the reproducing-church movement, which is a fulfillment of his great commission. We need to see a greater movement toward reproducing churches around the world, and the only institution that can reproduce church is the local church. -- Marc ChoiThis book will be a great tool for young leaders and church planters in Europe. It’s simple, to the point, challenging, and encouraging. I love it. -- N. D. Strupler

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Series: Exponential Series

Paperback: 240 pages

Publisher: Zondervan (April 17, 2010)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9780310326786

ISBN-13: 978-0310326786

ASIN: 0310326788

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5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

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Claiming to harness the key to starting a missional church movement in 229 pages is a grand proposal. I believe Dave and Jon Ferguson have given it an admirable shot.Exponential:How You and Your Friends Can Start a Missional Church Movement says that you and your friends can be a part of something amazing. According to this book the dreams of impacting an entire city, and more, with the gospel of Jesus Christ can become a reality if one person is willing to take the first step. Are you that person? If so, I recommend you read this book.Do you dream of reaching your city? Maybe you have for a while but you've kept the dream to yourself thinking it was impossible or crazy. Well it probably is crazy but that means that God will have to do it and you will have to trust Him. The Ferguson's tell their story that began just like this and trace it through the present day where they have multiple churches around the city of Chicago doing some really special things.The book is broken up into four sections: 1) Movements Start with One, 2) Reproducing Tribes of 10-100, 3) Reproducing Communities of 100-1,000 4) Reproducing movements of 10,000s. In these 229 pages you will find great wisdom and advice from experience, the information is very practical and will give you much to digest and apply right away. The word "reproducing" shows us thirteen times in the table of contents alone so you can be sure application and a strong focus on discipleship are a foundation for the book.I confidently recommend Exponential as a great resource to help you start a movement around the gospel in your community, city and nation.

A friend and I just read through Exponential by Dave and Jon Ferguson together. My friend admitted that Dave and Jon are his favorite Pastors in the United States and I admit I am a fan as well. This book hit me hard on a ton of levels and spoke deeply to convictions I was forming about church and growth.The subtitle speaks for the content of the whole book because it really is a book about: "How you and your friends can start a Missional Church Movement." These brothers share their journey of the church and now movement that God has used them to catalyze and grow.They candidly share their dreaming phase on up to the now very exponential movement that God blessed them to be a part of. Many things really struck me, challenged me and inspired me in this book. I hope to divulge as much as I can in the post so you too can be blessed by what I have learned through these guys!The idea of the book is to be a leader who reproduces exponentially, not only yourself but also the church and movements you catalyze. They believe strongly in us young pastors asserting that we can do it. They begin by giving 5 reproducing principles:1. Reproducing requires everyone to have an apprenticeYou can't be a one man show! People can learn from you.2. Reproducing is proactive, not reactiveDon't be waiting to respond to something, go make something happen!3. Reproducing is not about size; it's about leader readinessChurches can get bogged down by playing the numbers game...don't!4. Reproducing isn't about our kingdom; it's about God's KingdomWhen leaders you've produced leave to do something for God...don't hold them back, give them back to God!5. Reproducing happens on the edge and at the centerThey then go through how a guy named Troy McMahon stepped in as an apprentice and moved through the whole reproduction of a leader process: Individual-->Apprentice-->Leader-->Coach-->Director-->Campus Pastor/Church Planter-->Network Leader. They show how this is the best way to grow a person, use them fully and travel with them as they grow and gain more skills.I was struck by their simple but effective formula. What is even cooler is that they began this formula from the onset, so now it is in their DNA and is a natural outflow of everything they do. If I were to plant a church, this would be a formula I too would infuse into the church I was planting. Too many times people go into church planting or into an already established church and think about "maintenance" rather than "reproduction"; which is odd because Jesus never said: "But you will receive power with the Holy Spirit comes on you to maintain my church and never grow." He said: "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." (Acts 1:8 ESV) That sounds like reproduction to me.The next thing that struck me deeply was their HUGE emphasis on apprenticeship. They outline how Jesus had apprentices, so we too must have apprentices. My fear is (as it is with the Fergusons) that pastors in the US are afraid to have apprentices because they don't want to be overshadowed or maybe they don't want to be "found out". It's a sad reality but true.Two quotes that hit me every time I read them are: "Being an apprentice of Jesus means learning to dream BIG" (Ferguson 2010, p. 46) and: "What is your God-sized dream?" (Ferguson 2010, p. 49) I know God is birthing in me a dream and I've written it down (which I did before but the book in the end challenges the reader to write it out)! This book forced me to continue thinking about the dream God has inside me and it continually encouraged me that through the power of God I can indeed achieve my dream.Another thing that popped for me was the 2-2-2 principle that they laid out. It stems from 2 Timothy 2:2 and is core to reproducing. It is such a core because it lays down the relationships a leader must have: followers, an apprentice, peers and a coach. I love this biblical principle and even wrote a Youth Specialties article about the peer part here "Finding Your Jonathan".This principle is so true though! If one of those key relationships is not a part of a leaders life he/she won't be able to reproduce! So many pastors are "do it yourselfers" and it just doesn't work. It re-challenged me to find all of these relationships for myself. I am a Youth pastor on a team of 5 youth pastors in a large church...sometimes I feel like I don't have much of a voice in things. I get discouraged because I desire to apply some of this amazing change to my church yet I can't because of where I am. I'm young and low on the pole...but that doesn't mean I can't start making myself a better leader now so that if that ever changes I can be ready to be the head leader He desires me to be.Whether you are a senior pastor, youth pastor or church plant dreamer this book and the tools it has can help you...right where you are. Even if you can't immediately implement these tools in your context you can apply the leadership tools to your life!Another great insight in the book is the idea of reproducing artists (Chapter 5). Artists are key to church growth and reproduction and sadly many churches have failed to love them and use them they way they should be loved and used. I really enjoyed the whole chapter and thought it's a needed discussion. My favorite (and most controversial) part was the "Let Pagans Play" portion, which is about how we should let non Christians play in the worship band. It's a challenging thought that goes against the grain of many mainstream churches yet it is a gesture to artists demonstrating how vital the church thinks they are! This chapter helped me see how I can love on and embrace artists where I am (as the Middle School Pastor). I can reach out to them now, seek them now and use them now!More and more stuff popped in the book for me and inspired me (especially the multi-site stuff because I hope my church goes multi-site), but is far ahead from where I am. I know one day I will look back at those chapters and use them but today I am in a place where I can be excited and implement the stuff above TODAY.Life has me in a new cross road where I am thinking holistically about the church rather than just in my own frame of Youth Ministry. Reading books like this encourage and inspire me to dream of a new and brighter future for the whole church. Generating young leaders who are thinking holistically and exponentially rather than stagnantly and stuck inside their own modes of thinking.I hope to be used by God to be in or start a reproducing movement. There is a passion and a fire growing and the more books like this I read the more it burns!Thanks Fergusons!

I picked up several books in the "Exponential" series from Amazon several months back and recently finished this one. As I was getting ready to write this review, I found 1 already submitted that I thought summed up pretty well my feelings on this book; here the link - http://www.amazon.com/review/R28NA0DYVMF4FF/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R28NA0DYVMF4FFWithout duplicating much of what was said in the linked review, I'll just say these 2 things about Exponential:1. I was fooled by the sub-title. I bought Exponential thinking it would have more of a focus on missions and multiplying (or growing) the Church (from the outside), but there is little talk of it. After reading it, I now understand the focus was intentionally on reproduction inside the church and not on being "missional" as I understood it. Not a deal-breaker, but I include this in hopes that it will keep someone else from making the same mistaken assumption I made.2. There is LOTS of material in this book, so much so that I believe it could be 2-3 separate books. The authors exhaust every potential way a church could reproduce - leaders, coaches, volunteers, multi-sites, groups of 10-100, groups of 100-1000 - and some of what is printed is stated as if it "scriptural" with little backing to prove it. While I believe it is all good material and was well planned and executed, it was just a lot to process. Also, as previously stated in another review, much of it sounds like a business model dictating the reproduction of church life. I encourage you, as that reviewer did, to draw out the good and leave the rest.

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