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100 Strong

A pastor's clear path past every growth wall to 100 members and beyond. Read the entire book free, online with your 100 Strong account. No cost, ever.

What's inside

20 chapters and sections, every one free to read.

Part One: The Reframe
Part Two: The Five Walls
Chapter 4
Wall One, Getting to 25: Build Your Core Family

That ache of setting up forty chairs for twelve is not failure, it is the beginning every great church once stood in. Discover how to gather the small, sacred core family your whole future will grow from.

Chapter 5
Wall Two, Getting to 50: The Comfortable Trap

Past fifty, your church can feel like it has finally arrived, and that warm contentment is exactly what quietly stops you from growing. Here you will learn the two moves that reawaken invitation and open room for the next fifty to belong.

Chapter 6
Wall Three, Getting to 75: The Single-Cell Barrier

The exhaustion you cannot sleep off is not failure, and seventy is not your ceiling. Discover why your church stopped growing and the simple shift that lets new people belong again.

Chapter 7
Wall Four, Getting to 100: Becoming a Team-Led Church

You can see a hundred from where you stand, and this shows you how to cross the last wall without losing yourself or the people you love. You will learn to read the pushback for what it really is, grief instead of rebellion, and shepherd your church gently through it. And you will trade the impossible work of holding every soul by hand for a team that carries the load with you, so you can stop dropping the things that mat

Chapter 8
Past 100: From Adding to Multiplying

You reached a hundred, and that deserves to be celebrated out loud. Now learn the one move that turns a hundred into a launchpad instead of a ceiling, so your church need never permanently plateau again.

Part Three: The Systems
Chapter 9
Vision and Leadership: Raising Leaders Faster Than You Grow

Stop hoping leaders will appear and start building the engine that produces them, using a simple five-part filter that spares you the painful mistake of choosing talent over character. Discover the people already sitting in your pews who could become your best leaders, and learn the one sentence that calls them out by name and gets them to say yes.

Chapter 10
Outreach and Evangelism: Filling the Front Door

You will trade that quiet unease about outreach for something far freer: love with a strategy, a congregation that naturally invites, and a welcoming front door ready for every nervous stranger searching for you online.

Chapter 11
Hospitality and Assimilation: The Front Door and the Back Door

Find the leak you cannot see and seal it. You will learn to turn nervous first-time guests into connected members, and finally keep the people God is already sending you.

Chapter 12
Discipleship and Community: Groups That Multiply

Discover why your small groups are not a side program but the living structure your whole church grows along, and how to start one tonight with nothing more than a living room and a pot of coffee. Learn the simple arc of a healthy meeting and the two layers of community that turn a roomful of strangers into a family that holds people and produces your next leaders.

Chapter 13
Worship and Experience: A Sunday Worth Returning To

Name the fear out loud, then put it to rest: you do not need lights, a band, or a budget to give people a Sunday they ache to return to. You can offer the one thing no megachurch can buy, a room where people actually meet God, and you can offer it in full this week.

Chapter 14
Finances and Generosity: Funding the Mission

Stop flinching at money. Here you will learn to grow a genuinely generous church, fund your mission without guilt-tripping anyone, and find the easy win most churches are still leaving on the table.

Part Four: Measure and Last
Appendix
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