From Embers to a Flame: How God Can Revitalize Your Church by Dr Harry Reed. The intentional multiplication of maturing disciple makers is one of the core activities of a healthy local congregation. We have adapted a summary of his book for use in HCFI circles.

Spent Matches: Igniting the Signal Flame for the Spiritually Dissatisfied by Rev Roy Moran. He shares his personal journey from a traditional non-multiplying local congregation model towards one where multiplication of disciple makers is the norm. You can watch a 64 minute video of his journey here. A summary of his book can be found here.

Coram Deo Worldview Courses by the Disciple Nations Alliance: Poverty is not about people who do not have stuff. And working with the poor is not about giving stuff to those who do not have stuff. Poverty is a comprehensive problem with underlying worldview issues that need to be addressed. All disciples of Jesus Christ need to have their worldview challenged and shaped by Biblical Christian thinking. This online training is highly recommended.

 A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society by Eugene H. Peterson and Leif Peterson

Following Jesus in this way requires a deepening life of prayer, and throughout history Christians have learned to pray from the Psalms. Peterson finds encouragement for today’s pilgrims in the Songs of Ascents (Psalms 120-134), sung by travelers on their way to worship in Jerusalem. With his prophetic and pastoral wisdom, Peterson shows how the psalms teach us to grow in worship, service, joy, work, happiness, humility, community, and blessing.

Making Kingdom Disciples by Charles Dunahoo. Gives a broader background about various approaches to disciple making and has good advice about discipleship of the mind.

World View: The History of a Concept by David Naugle is an excellent study about the history of the concept of world view. He also introduces an excellent approach to Biblical Christian world view.

The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog, fifth edition, by James Sire gives a helpful overview of the main worldviews found globally.

Contagious Disciple Making  by David Watson

The vast majority of western Christians are church-members, pew-filler, hymn-singers, sermon-tasters, Bible-readers, even born-again believers or Spirit-filled charismatics, but not true disciples of Jesus.’

Transforming Worldviews by Paul Hiebert is an excellent in depth study of worldview from an anthropological and missiological perspective.

Shaping a Christian Worldview: The Foundations of Christian Higher Education edited by David Dockery gives an excellent overview of how a Christian Worldview can be applied into various areas of society, such as literature, natural science, social sciences, and healthcare.

The Book That Made Your World by Vishal Mangalwadi is highly recommended reading for anyone who wants to understand just how deeply history has been shaped by the Bible.

Essential Guide to Becoming a Disciple: Eight Sessions for Mentoring and Discipleship  By Greg Ogden

What am I committing to when I say I want to follow Jesus? Discipleship Essentials a core truth a Bible study a reading life application.

Multiplication by Roberto Bottrel

This is the great challenge facing every Christian, every leader of a small group, and every Church! In this book, you will find a solid biblical base, coupled with proven practice, with real cases and valuable hints that will help you to “multiply yourself” and to fulfil the Great Commission. MAKE DISCIPLES! MULTIPLY YOURSELF!

Master plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman

For more than forty years this classic study has challenged and instructed more than 1.5 million readers in reaching the world for Christ. With a foreword by Billy Graham and now repackaged for a new generation of readers, The Master Plan of Evangelism will show every Christian how to minister to the people God brings into their lives.

 The forgotten ways by: Alan Hirsch

The Forgotten Ways proposes the concept of Apostolic Genius as a way to understand what caused the church to experience exponential growth and impact at various times in history, interpreting it for use in our own time and place. From the theological underpinnings to the practical application, Hirsch takes the reader through this dynamic mixture of passion, prayer, and incarnational practice to rediscover the dormant potential of the modern church in the West.

Transforming Discipleship by: By Greg Ogden

Many church leaders, yearning for church growth, look to the latest evangelistic strategies or seeker-targeted worship services. But lack of growth might not be due to lack of concern for new people it may be because we are not effectively discipling the people we already have. Greg Ogden address the need for discipleship in the local church and recovers Jesus’ method of accomplishing life change by investing in just a few people at a time.

Training For Trainers by: Ying and Grace Kai

The remarkable inside story of the global Training for Trainers (T4T) movement that produced 150,000 new church starts and saw 2 million baptisms in a decade before going on to catalyze movements to Christ around the world. Told by the pioneers of the movement, Ying and Grace Kai, with spiritual insights and practical lessons that you can apply to your own life and ministry!

Miraculous Movement by: Jerry Trousdale

How do the people most resistant to the transformative power of the gospel come to be its most devoted followers?Miraculous Movement recounts an amazing change taking place within Muslim communities where the truth of Jesus Christ is turning around the lives of many thousands of Muslims from more than twenty people groups. Discover through the sometimes humorous, often sobering, but always enlightening and encouraging true stories how imams, sheikhs, and entire mosques are forsaking Islam and embracing Christ.

T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution by Steve Smith

A Discipleship Re-Revolution features the accumulated wisdom of nearly two decades of CPM best practices from around the world. The T4T, or Training for Trainers, movement is the most explosive and fruitful Church Planting Movement that we have ever seen. Since its inception in 2001, the T4T movement has seen more than 1.7 million baptisms and more than 150,000 new church starts. Truly we have never seen anything quite like this movement that is now impacting other mission efforts throughout the world.

Church Planting Movement by Dr. David Garrison

Church Planting Movement is Dr. David Garrison’s classic study of more than two dozen church-planting movements on five continents. This 360-page book examines the phenomenon of first-century movements that are occurring today among Muslims, Hindus, Animists, and post-Christian Secularists. Gain invaluable insights into how these movements are happening and how they can take place in your own community.