The Ministry Multiplication Cycle
- Church Leadership & Ministry
- Evangelism & Missions
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Published: 2020
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Publisher's Description
After harmonizing the four Gospels into one unified story, the author examines the ministry of Jesus to see what we can learn today for our own churches and ministries. As the story unfolds, one finds Jesus implementing four strategic ministry tactics, in this order: -Outsiders becoming new believers through evangelism -New believers becoming committed disciples through establishing -Committed disciples becoming effective workers through equipping -Effective workers becoming world Christians through missions mobilization Together these four tactics form the "ministry multiplication cycle." To determine whether this strategy is truly a biblical strategy or not, an in-depth look is then taken into the book of Acts. There we find the apostles, the men whom Jesus trained, implementing these same four tactics in the exact same order, with the exact same results--powerful growth through multiplication. The question remains whether the ministry multiplication cycle can be replicated today in our own culture. The answer is a resounding "yes," when we learn to think in terms of principles and not just practices. This book is a product of over thirty years of clarifying these principles in the classroom and implementing them around the world, the latter resulting in over two thousand churches being planted among unreached people groups.
Endorsements (35)
“If the church is to complete the task of world evangelization, she must multiply. Addition is not enough. The Ministry Multiplication Cycle captures the strategy of multiplication used by Jesus and reproduced by the apostles to reach the entire known world with the gospel in their lifetimes. The book provides not only the biblical basis but also the practical application for us to do the same today.”
“Church planting and church multiplication are keys to ministry explosion. As you read and study this book on the Great Commission you will find that Christ wanted Christians to be equipped and to maximize their God-given potential for the kingdom.”
“Bill has been a friend of mine for many years and what exudes from him most is his passion for fulfilling the Great Commission. While many American Evangelicals enjoy the training table, the film room, and the practice sessions, Bill has always gone beyond preparation; he likes being in the game itself. I find that spirit both exemplary and contagious. His latest book reflects that—and perhaps that takeaway is what the American church as a whole can learn most from him and his writings.”
“Bill Jones is a man of the Bible. What I love about Dr. Jones is that he not only knows the Scripture so well but applies it to real life in ministry with amazing results. As he says in this new book, ‘If the Bible teaches us what to believe and how to live, doesn’t it seem reasonable that it just might teach us how to minister?’ The answer is yes! The ministry multiplication strategy of Jesus in this book is a brilliant compilation of New Testament best practices and can work in any culture.”
“When you stop and pondered Jesus’ parable of the sower, don’t you wonder what it would be like to be the good soil that produces hundredfold? What would it take, how would I need to grow or surrender? Bill Jones’ book The Ministry Multiplication Cycle provides us with a detailed, compelling look at Jesus’ ministry, as a model for our lives to produce one hundred times. Having watched Bill in action and served some of the same leaders together, I see these principles lived out in his daily life. This is not just an interesting study for Bill. It takes time to tell if soil is going to produce a great crop, and I see God multiplying the fruit in Bill’s life.”
“God has used Bill Jones’ work to be a modern fulfillment of Ephesians 4:12. The Ministry Multiplication Cycle will equip a new generation of believers to reach the world for Christ. Grounded in a proper historical view of Scripture, through ingenious exegesis, Bill moves from great detail to the very practical in this work, making many deep concepts accessible to all who have a heart for evangelism. I am so excited to see the impact of this incredible work and heartily endorse it as a must-read for all believers from those focused on rubber-meets-the-road evangelism to the academic. You will not be disappointed; you will be changed!”
“I respect Bill Jones’ intellect. As an educator and leader, he has reached the apex of success in Christian higher education. But what I truly love about Bill is his passion for the gospel and the church. It’s a zeal that has been tested and tried over the decades on the mission field as well as in the pulpit and the classroom. Who better than a true practitioner to write about multiplication and church planting than a man who has put his feet and his hand to the plow, gotten his hands dirty in the fields, and has the callouses to prove his love for the work of the gospel? I commend this book to you with great enthusiasm for the message it contains and great admiration for the man who is the vessel God is using to shape the future of the church and missions.”
“In The Ministry Multiplication Cycle Bill Jones gives a biblical, practical, and comprehensive process for advancing the kingdom. I’ve been privileged to spend time with leaders of Crossover Global and affirm they are authentically putting this strategy into practice and seeing fruit. Bill has been teaching this for years, but it isn’t academic theory. It’s a proven model of a Jesus approach to unleashing the church.”
“This new book combines Bill Jones’ passions—deep biblical reflection and practical field ministry. An approach that has been used to plant over two thousand churches among unreached peoples over the last twenty-five years, this work will be a great practical help to twenty-first-century global church planters.”
“The enormity of the task ahead requires us to think and act with multiplication as an expectation. Multiplication was what the first-century church experienced. Straightforward and easy to understand, Dr. Bill Jones captures simple yet profound steps toward multiplication.”
“The book is an easy-to-read resource that will help you catch a biblically guided process for reaching, mentoring, and multiplying Jesus-followers globally. Bill Jones will make you think, and rethink, your assumptions about Jesus—both the how and why he did what he did. He will give you tools you can use and pass on as you teach and train others. If you choose not to follow what’s here, I hope you have a better plan than this.”
“Missionaries and Christian workers often fail to comprehend what God is doing in the world today because they fail to grasp the nuances of how Jesus was working in the all-too-familiar biblical narrative. As one who has had the unique privilege of being in a position to have an overview of how God is working in unprecedented ways to fulfill his mission to redeem a lost world, I was thrilled to read Bill Jones’ book on ministry multiplication. There are others who are both biblical scholars and missiologists, but few would combine these callings and disciplines into the unique leadership of Columbia International University and Crossover Global as did Bill Jones. We have always known we should multiply witnesses and multiply disciples but have failed to see that this is only a part of the equation. That multiplication of extended witness to the nations was, indeed, the ultimate objective of Jesus’ call to follow him and his life-on-life mentoring of the twelve. This book will inspire you to emulate that pattern.”
“In times of tectonic change and a ripening global harvest, Bill Jones unpacks an enduring biblical paradigm for how we should view our mission—and how you can impact the world!”
“The Ministry Multiplication Cycle was introduced to me when I was one of Dr. Jones’ students nearly twenty years ago. Today, after using its principles on three continents, I can confidently say this book is a must-read for church planters around the globe. Dr. Jones is a gifted missions strategist who practices what he teaches.”
“The ministry multiplication cycle class that I took twenty years ago under Dr. Bill Jones was a turning point in my missional education. It has been not only my personal philosophy of ministry since then, but also the core of my teaching curriculum across the French-speaking world. The concept is thoroughly biblical, theological, missiological, and practical. I am deeply thankful that his teaching is now available in book format. A must-read for every reflective practitioner!”
“The challenge presented in the book is as big as the world. It has to be accomplished among different cultures, languages, histories, and ethnicities. Bill has researched and prepared a theologically sound, practical, and culturally sensitive book to enable church planters to present the gospel and plant churches. The book expresses twenty-five years of leading a ministry that has planted over two thousand churches among unreached people groups. Bill has highlighted the eternal biblical principles and in his missionary experience in a brilliant way has ‘seen Eastern Europeans plant churches in Central Asia and the Central Asians reached then plant churches in China.’ The future has arrived! Formerly unreached groups are now taking an active role in fulfilling the Great Commission.”
“Simple. Memorable. Practical. Profound. These words describe the steps by which Bill Jones guides us from a fresh framing of the story of Jesus to the multiplication of disciples and churches both locally and cross-culturally. With refreshing candor, warmth, and humor he recounts his own journey of lifelong discovery, uncovering timeless principles to guide fruitful ministry in every context.”
“In The Ministry Multiplication Cycle, Bill Jones communicates a compelling, practical, biblical strategy for those who desire to be a catalyst for multiplication. This book provides a tested approach—one used by Jesus—that transcends cultures for the purpose of fulfilling the Great Commission. I hope you will read this book and more importantly, implement its steps.”
“Those that know Bill Jones will immediately recognize his ‘voice’ in this book. If you close your eyes for a moment you can hear the evangelist speaking urgency. As you read the book you will see the process thinker he is. For me, the shining values of the book are Bill’s passion for lost people everywhere; his strong commitment to the understanding, explanation, and obedience to the Bible; and the systematic way he develops his ideas. I hope that the many who read his book will also pick up the grand opportunity of our day, to see the prayers of generations of Jesus’ servants from all over the world fulfilled: world evangelization and the return of our Lord!”
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