Multiplier
How Healthy Leaders Create Lasting Impact
Published on 7. May 2026
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-310-17670-1 (ISBN)
Description
Expanding the mission of Jesus isn't a short-term sprint--it's a marathon. If you don't lead with health, you won't last.
So how do healthy leaders start and grow movements? They multiply.
Multiplication isn't about burning out in a flurry of activity. It's about leading in a way that is sustainable, healthy, and lasts for the next 10, 20, or even 50 years.
There is an unstoppable force inside you, a movement waiting to be unleashed. Multiplier is your roadmap for playing the long game of Kingdom impact, ensuring you don't just start strong but finish well.
In this book, you'll discover how to:
Make disciple-makers
Build healthy spiritual communities
Mobilize leaders in the coming generations
Launch churches and organizations with strong foundations
Monitor your relational, physical, mental, and spiritual health to strength over the long haul
If you're ready to lead in a way that doesn't just grow your ministry, but sparks sustainable movements for decades to come, Multiplier is your guide.
Don't just lead. Multiply.
So how do healthy leaders start and grow movements? They multiply.
Multiplication isn't about burning out in a flurry of activity. It's about leading in a way that is sustainable, healthy, and lasts for the next 10, 20, or even 50 years.
There is an unstoppable force inside you, a movement waiting to be unleashed. Multiplier is your roadmap for playing the long game of Kingdom impact, ensuring you don't just start strong but finish well.
In this book, you'll discover how to:
Make disciple-makers
Build healthy spiritual communities
Mobilize leaders in the coming generations
Launch churches and organizations with strong foundations
Monitor your relational, physical, mental, and spiritual health to strength over the long haul
If you're ready to lead in a way that doesn't just grow your ministry, but sparks sustainable movements for decades to come, Multiplier is your guide.
Don't just lead. Multiply.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Grand Rapids
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-310-17670-1 (9780310176701)
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Person
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.
Content
1. Introduction: The Secret of a Multiplier
o Introduces the secret of being multiplier and explains that we don't have to choose between a healthy life and lasting impact. The mission of Jesus was designed so that we can have both!
2. The Dangers of Drift
o Explores the dangers of "drifting" and the importance of being intentional about your internal and external world. No one has ever said, "I hope fifteen years from now I end up fifty pounds overweight, divorced and doing things that compromise my core convictions." It happens because we drift. It is drifting that causes us to end up in some place we never intended to be.
3. The Two Worlds of a Multiplier
o Defines the concept of a 'multiplier' by explaining both the inner world and the external world. It is by being intentional about the development of your inner world that leads to transformation. As the inner world is moving in the right direction it requires the same intentionality about the development of your external world which leads to multiplication. When there is momentum in the inner and external world it leads to movement.
4. The Inner World of a Multiplier: Checking Your RPMs
o Introduces the 'RPMs' framework for evaluating relational, physical, mental, and spiritual health as essential components of becoming a multiplier. A Multiplier wants to live a life that others will want to reproduce.
5. R - Relational Health: Cultivating Meaningful Connections
o Discusses the importance of nurturing healthy relationships and living in genuine community.
6. P - Physical Health: Prioritizing Wellness for Sustainable Influence
o Examines the significance of stewarding your physical well-being and offers practical strategies for maintaining health amidst the demands of life.
7. M - Mental Health: Nurturing Emotional and Intellectual Growth
o Explores the role of mental health and offers tools for personal development and resilience in the middle of a stressful constantly changing world.
8. S- Spiritual Health: Deepening Your Relationship with God
o Discusses the spiritual dimensions of a Multiplier and provides guidance for cultivating a vibrant spiritual life that keeps us close to God.
9. The External World of a Multiplier: Four Practices That Bring Missional Momentum
o Introduces the four practices of a Multiplier that each build upon the other and allow your influence to continue to grow and expand.
10. Making Disciple Makers: Reproducing Followers of Jesus
o Explores the practice of not just discipleship, but disciple-making and how it is foundational to the mission of Jesus and creating movement.
11. Establishing Spiritual Communities: Fostering Growth Through Relationships
o Discusses the importance of community-building and offers strategies for establishing relational environments that are catalysts for spiritual growth.
12. Mobilizing Leaders: Empowering Others for Impact
o Examines the process of leadership development and offers practical steps for identifying, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders who are all around you.
13. Launching Church Expressions: Multiplying Impact Through Innovation
o Offers a simple definition of church and explores innovative approaches to church planting and expansion, highlighting the potential for diverse expressions of the church to advance the mission of Jesus.
14. The Flywheel of a Momentum
o Summarizes how when a Multipliers inner world of transformation and outer world of multiplication are both moving in the right direction it creates a flywheel effect almost effortlessly gains spiritual momentum and is how movement are created.
o Introduces the secret of being multiplier and explains that we don't have to choose between a healthy life and lasting impact. The mission of Jesus was designed so that we can have both!
2. The Dangers of Drift
o Explores the dangers of "drifting" and the importance of being intentional about your internal and external world. No one has ever said, "I hope fifteen years from now I end up fifty pounds overweight, divorced and doing things that compromise my core convictions." It happens because we drift. It is drifting that causes us to end up in some place we never intended to be.
3. The Two Worlds of a Multiplier
o Defines the concept of a 'multiplier' by explaining both the inner world and the external world. It is by being intentional about the development of your inner world that leads to transformation. As the inner world is moving in the right direction it requires the same intentionality about the development of your external world which leads to multiplication. When there is momentum in the inner and external world it leads to movement.
4. The Inner World of a Multiplier: Checking Your RPMs
o Introduces the 'RPMs' framework for evaluating relational, physical, mental, and spiritual health as essential components of becoming a multiplier. A Multiplier wants to live a life that others will want to reproduce.
5. R - Relational Health: Cultivating Meaningful Connections
o Discusses the importance of nurturing healthy relationships and living in genuine community.
6. P - Physical Health: Prioritizing Wellness for Sustainable Influence
o Examines the significance of stewarding your physical well-being and offers practical strategies for maintaining health amidst the demands of life.
7. M - Mental Health: Nurturing Emotional and Intellectual Growth
o Explores the role of mental health and offers tools for personal development and resilience in the middle of a stressful constantly changing world.
8. S- Spiritual Health: Deepening Your Relationship with God
o Discusses the spiritual dimensions of a Multiplier and provides guidance for cultivating a vibrant spiritual life that keeps us close to God.
9. The External World of a Multiplier: Four Practices That Bring Missional Momentum
o Introduces the four practices of a Multiplier that each build upon the other and allow your influence to continue to grow and expand.
10. Making Disciple Makers: Reproducing Followers of Jesus
o Explores the practice of not just discipleship, but disciple-making and how it is foundational to the mission of Jesus and creating movement.
11. Establishing Spiritual Communities: Fostering Growth Through Relationships
o Discusses the importance of community-building and offers strategies for establishing relational environments that are catalysts for spiritual growth.
12. Mobilizing Leaders: Empowering Others for Impact
o Examines the process of leadership development and offers practical steps for identifying, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders who are all around you.
13. Launching Church Expressions: Multiplying Impact Through Innovation
o Offers a simple definition of church and explores innovative approaches to church planting and expansion, highlighting the potential for diverse expressions of the church to advance the mission of Jesus.
14. The Flywheel of a Momentum
o Summarizes how when a Multipliers inner world of transformation and outer world of multiplication are both moving in the right direction it creates a flywheel effect almost effortlessly gains spiritual momentum and is how movement are created.