The Hero Maker Softcover (Special)

<p><strong>Everybody wants to be a hero but few understand the power of being a hero maker.</strong></p><p>In <em>Hero Maker</em> 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.</p><p>Drawing on five powerful practices found in the ministry of Jesus <em>Hero Maker</em> presents the key steps of apprenticeship that will build up other leaders and provides strategies for how you can activate gifts help others take ownership and develop a simple scorecard for measuring your kingdom-building progress.</p><p>Besides rich insights from the Gospels <em>Hero Maker </em>is packed with real-life ministry stories ranging from paid staff to volunteer leaders and from established churches to new church plants. A practical tool accompanies each of the five practices with several illustrations for how to use it.</p><p>Whether you lead ten people or ten thousand <em>Hero Maker</em> will not only help you maximize your leadership but in doing so you will also help shift today's church culture to a model of reproduction and multiplication. Authors Dave Ferguson (a Chicago pastor and church planter) and Warren Bird (an award-winning writer) make a compelling case that God's power and purpose are best revealed when we train and release others who in turn do likewise.</p><p>Become that rare breed of leader who brings change into our world by sacrificially investing in others who become the heroes. By becoming a hero maker you will join a movement of influencers that are impacting hundreds thousands and perhaps millions of people around the world.</p>