I need your help.
I need a home-run title and subtitle for a book I'm writing with Warren Bird (for release in April 2010 at the Exponential Conference). If the publisher uses your title, we'll give you a double award:
(1) we will name you in the "acknowledgements" page, AND
(2) we'll mail you your choice of 3 books from a list of 30 title options we'll supply.
Standards: Title/subtitle need to be:
1. Distinctive, unique and compelling.
2. Clearly forecast what the book is about
3. Use the phrase "church multiplication movement" (probably in the subtitle)
Audience: Big-picture church planters, especially network leaders, who want to move from "addition" to "multiplication." If you attend Exponential, that's the core audience.
Gist -- what the book is about:
The book can be summarized in two words: multiply everything. That means to build environments where leaders spend most of their time reproducing themselves, and to use structures that readily lend to being replicated. That perspective also involves a huge commitment to permission giving, empowerment, risk taking and innovation. To maintain something is far easier than to train someone else to do it, and also to instill in that person the heart and skill to train yet others.
The book will include as-of-yet unreleased research in addition to examples and guidance on how to foster Church Multiplication Movements.
Our hope and prayer is that this book will inspire you to form not just a network, but to help develop a church multiplication movement - an explosive pace of birthing of new churches, all of which engage lost people and replicate themselves through planting even more new churches.
Our best ideas so far (but none of them clear winners):
1. Viral Churches: From Church Planting to Movement Making
2. Viral Churches: Fueling a Church Multiplication Movement in This Generation
3. Orchards: The Move from Church Planting to Church Multiplication Movements
4. Orchards: Not How to Plant a Tree, But How to Grow a Field Full of Orchards
5. The Blue Ocean Book: Creating Uncontested Space for a Church Multiplication Movement
This is enough to give you the idea. What do you think?
Posted on August 3, 2009 at 1:33 AM ~ 154 Comments
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Faster than Swine Flu: Unleashing a Church Multiplication Movement
I like a collaboration of what you've got.
Multiply Everything: From Church Planting to Movement Making
Jonathan,
Oh, if you only knew how much I like that title!
Ed
What's Better Than Planting a Church:? Planting Two: Church Multiplication - the Better Way
Cloning for the Kingdom: How to Multiply the Church Planting Movement
or
Kloning for the Kingdom: How to Multiply the Church Planting Movement
The Forest for the Trees
Growing leaders in the Church Multiplication Movement.
Mitosis:Fueling An Organic Church Multiplication Movement
Organic Mission: From Church Plants to Church Multiplication Movements.
A Manifold Journey: From Church Plants to Church Multiplication Movements.
Hatcheries: Spawning a New Generation of Churches Planters
Epidemic: A Church Multiplication Movement
Fifth Grade Ecclessiology: Multiplication for Kingdom Causes
If I remember correctly, I learned my multiplication tables in 5th grade...hence the title.
How about:
Viral Church: Empowering Leaders to start a Church Multiplication Movement.
As far as I can tell, no one has written a book titled "viral church" which is surprising.
I really like the "Viral Church" angle. I think a subtitle play off of that would be cool.
Lookin' forward to the read!
Times Table: Multiplying Churches and Planting a Movement
The "Sneezability" Factor in Church Multiplication
2X - Dont make disciples, multiply them
The Process of Church Procreation: How Church Multiplication Movements Happen
Leverage: Why a Church Multiplication Movement is a Must
Leverage: Why Shovels Move More Dirt Than Hands
Multiply or Die: A Compelling Case for a Church Multiplication Movement
Hate Math But Love the Kingdom: May the Church Multiplication Movement is for You
WWED: What Would Ed Do? Multiply Churches - Any Questions?
Michael,
That last suggestion is a little scary (but still funny).
Ed
Bury Your Ego: Join the Church Multiplication Movement
Where few Dare to go: Fields of Harvest.
Church Multiplication Movements: That's what Missional Is Really About.
Copy and Paste: Join the Church Multiplication Movement
Hare Tactics: stop making churches, multiply them
Church-iplication: Birthing A Church Multiplication Movement In This Generation
Kevin
Ha!
Ed
What if the Holy Spirit ran the Church?
Church (HS) (putting the Holy Spirit to the top and right of the word church like saying church squared)
I know you did that article for Outreach (according to Google), but the idea remains. What would happen if the Holy Spirit were totally free to move at His pace? I think it would be a church multiplication movement. You see where I'm going with this...
Plant a Church - It's easier to give birth than raise the dead.
Don't Just Plant - MULTIPLY: Fuel For The Church Multiplication Movement
From Addition to Multiplication: How the Church Multiplication Movement Might Save Us From Ourselves
Go Forth and Multiply: How God is using the Church Multiplication Movement to Empower His Bride
Inspired by Eph. 4:11-12, and Kevin DeYoung's subtitles...
CORRECTING YOUR VISION: WHY YOU NEED TO STOP PLANTING CHURCHES AND START EMPOWERING PEOPLE TO DO THE WORK OF THE MINISTRY SO YOU YOUR CHURCH CAN BEGIN A CHURCH MULTIPLICATION MOVEMENT
I even took a minute to make a mock-up of what it might look like...
http://joelburdeaux.gutensite.com/Stetzer-Book
The New Math: The Move from Church Planting to Church Multiplication Movements
Multiplicational - The New 'Church Growth' Movement. (That way you can keep the 'al' branding going.
NetworX - A holistic approach to the Church Multiplication Movement
or... my personal favorite
A church on every corner isn't good enough anymore - Your guide to the Church Mutliplication Movement ;)
Epidemic: The Spread Of A Church Multiplication Movement
Ed Stetzer: I am a Church Planting Genius and Your Not
Church Planting for Dummies: A Book for the Pastors Who Don’t Church Plant
For Cryin Out Loud: How Many Books Do I have to Write for Churches to Actually Plant Churches
Another Ed Stetzer Book: So Just Buy It
Ed Stetzer: Enough Said
Empowering New Generations (The Key to Church Multiplication Movements)
Chris,
I am feeling pretty good about this one:
"For Cryin Out Loud: How Many Books Do I have to Write for Churches to Actually Plant Churches"
It has that Stetzer-subtle approach.
Ed
Pass it On - The power of multiplication vs. addition
Planting Dandelions: The Church Multiplication Movement
Risk Yourself! Multiplying Churches.
cornfield: the kernel of the church multiplication movement.
Gardens to Groves: The Move from Church Planting to Church Multiplication Movements
Everything you always wanted to know about church planting, but were afraid to do - The Church Multiplication Movement Bible
All of these could have a subtitle of "Church Multiplication Movement 2.0"
So you think you can plant?
Are you smarter than a church planter?
Planters got talent.
Our 'Planters' are not dry or roasted.
Planting Like Rabbits:
Multiplying Churches For Exponential Effect
OK, version 1.0 here...
Teach This Church to Fish, Lord: Handing Out Fish vs. Church Multiplication Movements
Roots: starting a church multiplication movement
Roots: A Church Planting Movement
Roots: Starting a Movement to Multiplies Churches
(graphic title, as if hand drawn)
multiplication symbol - parenthesis church building close parenthesis - greater than symbol - addition symbol
(subtitle)
"the simple math of church multiplication and mission"
The Clone Wars: How to reproduce and multiply everything in the Church Multiplication Movement
God's Chicago Math - A Field Guide for the Next Generation of Leaders in the Church Multiplication Movement
Kristian Kudzu: Covering the Land
Here are a few ideas:
The Pandemic Church: Building an Explosive, World Changing, Church Multiplying Movement
Church Without Borders: Moving Beyond Your Boundaries to Church Multiplication
Kingdom Math: Multiply Everything to Become an Explosive Church Planting Movement
Viral Churches wins---
Viral Churches: A Multiplying Epidemic not to be Remedied
How about...
Sow What?!? New conversations on the church multiplication movement...
In no particular order:
1) Forcefully Entering: The Church Multiplication Movement for the Kingdom of God
2) Avant-garde: The Church Multiplication Movement for Kingdom Pioneers
3) The Church Multiplication Movement: The Equation for a Lost World
4) 70x7: The Infinite and Innovative Pursuit of the Church Multiplication Movement
5) I Always Hated English: The Future of Church Planting in the Church Multiplication Movement
6) Like Eating Pringles: The Church Multiplication Movement and the Future of Church Planting
7) Sending Churches and Leaders into the Harvest: The Work of the Church Multiplication Movement
Multiply Yourself: How to make a larger impact through the church multiplication movement
X: The Church Multiplication Movement
Squared Off: How to make a larger impact through the church multiplication movement
I like the 'X', which is why I spelled 'NetworX' as I did. If I'm not mistaken, some of the early crosses were actually in the shape of an 'x' as well as others in the shape of a 't'. Transforming a traditional looking cross into an 'X' may be an idea. Or even a large 'X' with a background of innumerous 'x's. (Now I am talking graphics and you are talking words.)
Growing A Forest And Not Just A Tree: The Church Multiplication Movement
2 x 2 = Unlimited Possibilities: The Church Multiplication Movement
Reproduce: Developing The Next Generation of Leaders Through The Church Multiplication Movement
Viral Churches: Infecting The World Through The Church Multiplication Movement
Buy This Book About The Church Multiplication Movement: If You Don't Jack Bauer Will Come Get You!
Expansion: Kingdom Movement and Church Multiplication
Expand: Moving the Church to Multiplication
Expand or Expanse: Church Movement and Multiplication
Funny Entry:
TO INFINITY AND BEYOND
A Hundredfold: Developing the Church Multiplication Movement
The description sounds more like a leadership building guide than a church planting book. Anyway, here are some thoughts...
Remedial Math: Reminding the Church that Multiplication is Bigger than Addition
Massive Movements: Multiplying Churches that Multiply Churches
Radical Expansion: Igniting a Movement by Multiplying Church Leaders
Church Multiplication: Changing the Magnitude of Your Movement
Church^2 (read as "Church Squared"): Building Momentum Through Multiplication
Planting Unleashed
Reaching the World through Church Multiplying Movements
Future Tense
The Church Multiplication Movement for Kingdom Pioneers
(subtitle by JR, blog post)
Momentum
Unleashing the Power of Church Multiplication Movements
Momentum Planting
Reaching the World through Church Multiplying Movements
Kingdom Multipliers
Leading a Church Multiplication Movement
Kingdom Multipliers
How to Lead a Church Multiplication Movement
Getting from + to x
Moving beyond church planting and into the church multiplication movement.
Wow, there are some great ones there.
Planting Church Planting Churches: how a church multiplication movement starts and grows
One Hundred Fold: how the church can fulfill Jesus' call through church multiplication movements
Pandemic: how church multiplication movements spread
Be Fruitful and Multiply: how church multiplication movements are growing the kingdom of God
Be Fruitful and Multiply: God's command to his Bride
Be Fruitful and Multiply: planting church planting churches
Multiplicity: Inside a Church Growth Explosion
don't plant A church:
plant CHUCHES that multiply
or
don't plant A CHURCH:
plant CHURCHES that plant CHURCHES
You want me to do what and go where?:Church planting and multiplication movement
I suggest PLEETHINO or better still, PLYTHINO -- Greek for "to multiply" as found in the New Testament.
"To a Greater Power: Developing a Gospel-Centered Church Multiplication Movement"
Maximal Impact: Fulfilling the Great Commission through Church Multiplication
good jesus virus:
the church multiplication movement
lunch with jesus:
the church multiplication movement
all this from one kid's lunch?
the church multiplication movement
church 3.0
the church multiplication movement
Viral Leadership: Compounding Your Ministry through a Church Multiplication Movement
Viral Leadership: Multiplying Your Ministry, Your Church, Yourself
Viral Leadership: Starting and Sustaining a Church Multiplication Movement
[RE]Movement
The new arithmetic for multiplying churches...
2 + 2 "does not equal" 4 - We're hoping a Church Multiplication Movement can change the rules for everything!
...there is a mathematical symbol for "does not Equal" but my keyboard doesn't have it...
Sherpas versus Guides:
In the "extreme ministry" of church planting, don't handhold clients, prepare the way for climbers
Might require a bit of setup on the tie to church planting and the comments about church planting being the "extreme sport" of ministry
Floods not showers
Mining Memes: The Viral Church Effect
The following suggestions play on the exponential function as a mathematical construct.
eX factor: multiplying churches for exponential growth
[The title would show the constant "e" raised to the "x" power, which is the mathematical definition of the exponential function. Your intro could discuss God as the constant "e" in the equation (the same yesterday, today, and forever), while the "x" factor describes the variables involved in moving from addition to multiplication based on your research. A very brief explanation of the math behind it could clearly make the point.]
Other ideas related to the exponential function (constants raised to the nth power) are:
eXplosive growth: multiplying churches for exponential growth
(again, the "x" would actually appear raised in the title)
N powerment: Empowering Leaders for Exponential Church Growth
The Power of oNe: Releasing Church Leaders for Exponential Growth
(a play on the Exponential Conference theme...but which emphasizes the exponential function as a mathematical construct)
INFECTIOUS CHURCH PLANTING: Turning Church Multiplication into an Epidemic!
Be Fruitful & Multiply: From Isolation to Multiplication
Be Fruitful & Multiply: A Church Multiplication Movement
The Ripple Effect: Missional Means Multiplication
Exponential Church: Moving Towards Multiplication
Exponential Church: From Isolation to Multiplication
Vine to Vineyard: A Church Multiplication Movement
Trees to Orchards: A Church Multiplication Movement
Think Exponential: A Church Multiplication Movement
Kingdom Compound Interest: Church Growth Through Multiplication
the ellipsis...
church multiplication in a sedimentary world...
Advance: Creating a Church Multiplication Movement to Advance the Local Church
***correction***
the ellipsis(...)
church multiplication in a sedentary world
Easy. Contest over. here you go.
Gospel Pandemic!
Church multiplication movements that can't be stoped.
Or if you want to be SBC friendly:
Great Commission Pandemic!
Anyway, you really need to use "pandemic" unless you can figure out a way to include "swine flu" in your title.
con-fla-gra-tion spot fires coming together to form a very intense and uncontrolled fire
Harvesting the World
The church multiplication movement: a massive harvest requires a multipled effort.
The Great Commission revisited. Turning the world upside down (again) through church multiplication.
CP3: Church Planting Multiplied
Like big CP and little 3; as in "Church Planting Cubed"
OR
CP10: Church Planting Exponential
Like big CP and little 10; like a math equation.
Stop Adding and Start Multiplying
Green Rivers and Green Beer: Fill the Waters in the Seas.
From the Root,For the Root: Fill the Earth and Subdue it.
The Cultivated Church
Fig Tree - Fruit doesnt = Church
SPREAD...Tracking the church multiplication virus.
Reformultiply: Movement and Progress
Dandelion of Judah
The Bearing Branches: Church-planting-churches
Optimizing Prime: Multiples
Offspring: Gift of God to the Bride of Christ
how about a variation on what you're got?
"viral vision: seeing the power of the church multiplication movement"
Your Seed for Sowing: The spirit moves and Righteousness mulitplies
BULLSEYE!
Keeping The Church Multiplication Movement On Target
The Doubling Minded Man: Risking a Church Multiplication Movement for the Glory of God
Commisioned For The Mission: Multiplying For The Harvest.
The Wildfire Church: How to Consume the Forest of Unchurched by Multiplying Your Flame
The Church A'Blazin: How Your Church's Six Shooter Doubles in a Church Multiplication Movement
The New Church Times: Multiplication over Information (newspaper theme)
To the Nth Degree: How a Church Multiplication Movement can Bring Exponential Growth
Clone Wars: How Multiplying Your Church, Your Resources, & Yourself can Be Debated (sheep covering front cover)
Embryonic Church Cell Research: Examining the Church Plant Multiplication Movement
1. The Biblical Art of Multiplying Churches
2. Be Fruitful and Multiply: The Biblical Mandate
Two + Five = Five Thousand: Igniting A Multiplying Church Movement
Infinity: Fueling A Multiplying Church Movement
Infinity: Boundless Church Multiplication Movements
Unbounded: A Church Multiplication Movement Manifesto
Shoot The Moon: A Church Multiplication Movement Manifesto
Immeasurably More: A Church Multiplication Movement Manifesto
The Sky's Not The Limit: Exponentially Multiplying Church Movements
'Exponential Multiplication'
Shoot the Moon: A Church Multiplication Manifesto
Infinity: Awakening a Church Multiplication Movement
Unbounded: Dispatching a Limitless Church Multiplication Movement
Kingdom Principles^2 (Squared): Exponetial Growth Concepts for Church Multiplication
Exploding Church(es):
How the Church Multiplication Movement can move you from expansion to explosion!
Grains of Sand: Helping to Fulfill God's Blessing to the Nations Through a Church Multiplication Movement
Chain Reaction: The Explosive Dynamics of the Church Multiplication Movement.
"It's mine, but you can have some"
Producing Reproduction: Creating a Church Multiplication Movement
A few more light hearted ones for you:
Reproduction not Seduction:
Everyone Likes Babies, No One Likes Diapers: why church multiplication is worth the struggle.
Multiplicity: A calling for exponential Kingdom growth.
"Against the Odds"
Going from Addition to Multiplicity for Church Planting
Reproducible Church: Starting a Church Multiplication Movement Through Disciple Making
Reproducible Church: Risk Taking and Disciple Making as Foundations for Church Planting
This is on my mind because my wife and I are laying the groundwork to start a disciple-making movement near Boston, MA. When people ask what kind of church we are starting they want me to keep it confined to the typical boxes (ie house church, cell church, traditional church, etc.). I'm wanting everything to be reproducible so I've started telling people I'm starting a reproducible church.
It sounds like your new book is similar in thinking to some of the thoughts we are having here in Boston. Regardless of whether or not this becomes the title I hope you can use the concept to help people see the need to invest in others and stop creating a dichotomy between the professionals and the spectators.
I would love to hear your feedback on our disciple making movement idea. Please contact me at my email address or website if you are interested in our thoughts. For my part, I am looking forward to your book.
Baby Makers!
"Empowering and multiplying leaders in Churches"
E3 (should look like E to the power of three)
Equipping, Encouraging, and Empowering the Church Multiplication Movement
yes THEY can!
Begin a Church Multiplication Movement
Church Multiplication: Plants X People = Movement
Respectfully submitted
Multiply Everything: Inspiring and Empowering Future Generations of the Church Multiplication Movement for Exponential Growth
OR
And They Told Two Friends: Harnassing the Exponential Power of the Church Multiplication Movement
A few suggestions:
Unless a Kernel of Wheat Dies: The Ethos of a Church Multiplying Movement.
Viral Gospel: A Church Multiplication Strategy
The Pandemic Church: Creating a Multiplying Church Planting Movement
RePlant - Toward a complete view of the Church Multiplication Movement
Contagious Churches: The Roots of a Church Multiplication Movement.
1. Math For Church Planters – The Church Multiplication Movement
2. Gospel Math – The Church Multiplication Movement
Changing Diapers Is Easier Than Potty Training: Restoring a Passion for Church Multiplication Movements
Or .. alternately ...
BULLSEYE: The Church Multiplication Movement
Getting On Target and Staying There
Multiply for the MASTER
Palindromatic Church Multiplication: Beginning with an End-like-Beginning in Mind
Spiritual DNA Loop: Returning Church Multiplication to Its BASICS
Wow ... lots of interesting suggestions!
Here's one more:
Uncontainable Epidemic - Infecting the Body for a Multiplication Movement.
ChurchHouse Rock: Multiplication is the Magic System
There may be some copyright issues with that one.
Or
From "+" to "x": A guide to Church Multiplication Movements
Rise or Rize: the global movement to multiply the church
Multiply Everything: The Art of Creating an Exponential Movement
Kingdom Muliplication -
Maximizing Ministry and Minimizing Maintenance
I'm thinking nano because it is a small prefix measurement for time and lenght. Nano in greek means dwarf. The dwarf church is on the move. Dwarfs of fictional variety, live underground and can cause quite a rumbling. Nano is 10/-9. It is very small but powerful. Micro is millionith and Nano is billionith. Church multiplication is to reach the billionith person. Nanobots are very small fast technology moving individuals with a common purpose. So with this in mind here are my titles: Nano generation, nanolegion (this is a fine way to reverse the legion mentioned in the Bible who were of the demonic variety), Nanopower, Nanotech, Nanosmart, Nano over giga (see relevant unit of measure), Red dwarf church, Nano multiplication, Nano's moving together, Nanoway
scientists believe that one day nanobots could be injected into the bloodstream and find exactly where someone's cancer is and eradicate it. Makes me think how a focused nano level movement can work together to bring a more pure spotless bride to the altar of Christ's deliverance and healing.
Kudzu Kingdom: Covering the Landscape through Church Multiplication
(Someone earlier mentioned "Kudzu Kristian." If you look at how kudzu multiplies, it speaks well to your project.)
Don't Waste Your Church: Expanding Your Vision Through Church Multiplication
Plant, Water, Repeat: The Biblical Cycle to Healthy Church Multiplication
Making Waves: Your Church Multiplied
Gospel Waves: Your Church Multiplied
Global Gospel-Warming: Expanding Your Vision Through Church Multiplication
God's Math:
Going from one lost to many in the kingdom.
Replicate: the explosion of church multiplication.
Many great suggestions already. Here are my contributions:
1. The Forest Factor: Cultivating a Church Multiplication Movement
2. Cultivation Multiplication: Cultivating a Church Multiplication Movement
3. The Orchard Option: The Shift From Church Planting to Church Multiplication Movements
4. Exponential Expectations: Cultivating Leaders, Multiplying Churches
5. God's Grove: Cultivating Plants, Multiplying Churches
6. Growing Groves: The Shift From Church Planting to Church Multiplication Movements
Honestly, I usually don't use alliterations in my sermons, but it seemed to fit here!
Nth Church:
The limitless possibilities of a church multiplication movement
or
A handbook for creating a church multiplication movement
The Multiplying Ethos
-becoming a reproducing leader in order to build a reproducing church
Multiplicity
-reproducing leadership that leads the church multiplying movement
Product > Sum
Multiplication > Addition
x > +
x > + = Now
X = Future
The Product is Greater than the Sum.
Moving from addition to multiplication in Church Planting.
Old Math, New Numbers
A cool design for the cover could be inspired by the old "School House Rock" videos. This would be Church House rock, educating the church in the next level of Ministry Arithmetic.
Times two:
from church planting to multiplication
gesundheit: taking church planting viral
Churches that Reproduce: Realigning Posture and Action
Title: ROOT CANAL
Sub-title: Working Beneath the Surface in the Church Multiplication Movement
Birthing of The Fifth Kingdom -
The Movement of Church Multiplication
The Mission Touch: the church multiplication movement that turns everything to go.
Everything Must Go: Selling out for the church multiplication movement
Open Source: Embedding the church multiplication movement
Letting Go: releasing the church multiplication movement
Rumor Mill: the church multiplication movement with repeating