Hero Maker, Dave Ferguson
Hero Maker, Dave Ferguson
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Hero Maker
Five Essential Practices for Leaders to Multiply Leaders

Author: Dave Ferguson, Warren Bird, J. D. Greear

Narrator: Mark Smeby, John Behrens, Gabe Wicks

Unabridged: 6 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 08/14/2018

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

In Hero Maker, you will learn how to bring real change to your church and community by developing the practical skills to help others reach their leadership potential.Drawing on five powerful practices found in the ministry of Jesus, Hero Maker presents the key steps of apprenticeship that will build up other leaders and provide strategies for how you can:activate the gifts of those around youhelp others take ownership of their missiondevelop a simple scorecard for measuring your kingdom-building progressWith rich insights from the Gospels, Hero Maker is packed with real-life ministry stories ranging from paid staff to volunteer leaders--from established churches to new church plants.Whether you lead ten people or ten thousand, Hero Maker will not only help you maximize your leadership impact; but, in doing so, you will also help shift today's church culture to a model of reproduction and multiplication.Chicago pastor and church planter Dave Ferguson and award-winning writer Warren Bird make a compelling case that God's power and purpose are best revealed when we train and release others to further advance the Kingdom of God.By becoming a hero maker and investing in others, you can join a movement of influencers that are impacting thousands of people around the world.Everybody wants to be a hero, but few understand the power of being a hero maker.

About Dave Ferguson

Dave Ferguson is an award-winning author of Hero Maker & B.L.E.S.S.; the CEO of Exponential and founding pastor of Chicago’s COMMUNITY, a multi-expression church considered one of the most influential in America.

About Warren Bird

Warren Bird, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President of Research and Equipping at ECFA.org (Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability). Previously he was Research Director at Leadership Network. He's an award-winning author/co-author of 34 books for pastors and church leaders, church boards, and seminary professors. Bird researches cutting-edge churches and works with their leaders to multiply their evangelistic and disciple-making impact.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tara

It has some great principles in it but it reworks the same ideas over and over again.......more

Goodreads review by Tudor

Some interesting ideas about developing leaders in ministry. However I think a cardinal mistake is taking specific examples of how God has blessed specific ministries and making that prescriptive for all ministry success. Each ministry leader needs to be faithful with the calling God has placed on t......more

Goodreads review by B.J.

Do you want to be a hero, or do you want to be a person creating heroes? This is the primary question in this book. Every pastor wants to grow a big church. This is in itself a noble goal. But Dave Ferguson wants us to shift our focus from growing churches to growing leaders who will grow many more......more

“Am I trying to be the hero, or am I trying to make heroes out of others?” Dave Ferguson and Warren Bird believe church leaders should ask this question daily if they want to develop a culture of multiplication in their congregations. To help leaders do this, the authors outline five essential pract......more