12 Best Growth Books
Growth is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Growth audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 12 Growth audiobooks below.
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Your Church Is Too Safe
- By: Mark Buchanan
- Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: March 06, 2012
- Language: English
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4.28(102 ratings)
4.28(102 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USD“These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also.” That was the startled cry, circa 50 AD, from a hastily assembled mob in Thessalonica. These men who have turned the world upside: their description of Paul and Silas.“These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also.” That was the startled cry, circa 50 AD, from a hastily assembled mob in Thessalonica. These men who have turned the world upside: their description of Paul and Silas. Holy vandals on the loose, anointed marauders running amok, men out ransacking Roman cities with the gospel. You’d think they were heralding the arrival of Barbarian hordes, fierce Berserkers descending on poorly fortified villages, not two hungry men with no more than a fire in their bellies and a wildness in their eyes. These were just two ordinary men. But, as Paul says to the Corinthians, he was a man who preached “with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,” a man whose weapons were not of the world but had “divine power to demolish strongholds.” Two simple, ordinary men, walking in the power of God. A whole town in uproar because of them. It’s been a while since we’ve seen the likes of this. Your Church Is Too Safe is an unabridged audio download based on a simple idea: that God meant his church to be both good news and bad news, an aroma and a stench – a disruptive force to whoever or whatever opposes the Kingdom of God, and a healing and liberating power to those who seek it. That the church has not always lived this mandate is well-documented. That the church needs to recover this mandate is much touted. Your Church Is Too Safe is a plea, a celebration, and a manifesto. It’s an attempt to call the church to be the church. It is a tribute to the many churches that seek to be this. And it is a roadmap to become this. Above all, Your Church Is Too Safe is a biblical reflection and exhortation on why we should be this. Its main narrative is rooted in the story of how the early church, for all her failings and heresies and squabbles, managed to turn the world upside down. And its principal claim is that the modern church, for all her failings and heresies and squabbles, has every advantage they had, and maybe more, and faces no more challenges than they did, and maybe fewer.
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Rediscovering Discipleship
- By: Robby Gallaty
- Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: March 08, 2022
- Language: English
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4.24(195 ratings)
4.24(195 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDDiscipleship is the buzzword today. Many believers are contemplating in a fresh way what it means to take the Great Commission seriously. Rediscovering Discipleship takes the guesswork out of Christian maturity.  Based on insights gained from aDiscipleship is the buzzword today. Many believers are contemplating in a fresh way what it means to take the Great Commission seriously. Rediscovering Discipleship takes the guesswork out of Christian maturity. 
Based on insights gained from a decade of personally making disciples, author and pastor Robby Gallaty tackles the two hindrances that keep believers from getting involved in making disciples: ignorance and uncertainty. Since many believers have never been personally disciple, they have no model to guide them in discipling others. Their ignorance of the process fuels their uncertainty, which leaves them crippled from the start. With simple principles that are easy to apply, Rediscovering Discipleship provides you with the tools to follow the Great Commission–to go and actually make disciples who multiply and make disciples.
Gallaty begins with a brief historical overview of the discipleship ministries of influential theologians, preachers, and pastors from years past, and then identifies roadblocks that hinder believers from becoming disciples before offering a step-by-step process for you to  immediately get started on the path to effective disciple making.
Accompanying charts are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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Evangelism in a Skeptical World: Audio Lectures
- By: Sam Chan
- Narrator: Sam Chan
- Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan Academic
- Publish date: May 15, 2018
- Language: English
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4.2(5 ratings)
4.2(5 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDThe Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook’s direct narration of a book’s text, Evangelism in a Skeptical World: Audio Lectures includes high-qualityThe Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook’s direct narration of a book’s text, Evangelism in a Skeptical World: Audio Lectures includes high-quality live recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
Most Christians already believe they should be telling others about Jesus, but traditional methods are no longer as effective in today’s post-Christian world. Thus, we may become frustrated, blame ourselves, or simply give up. Evangelism in a Skeptical World: Audio Lectures equips Christians with the principles and skills needed to tell the unbelievable news about Jesus to friends in a skeptical world.
Presented by speaker and evangelist Sam Chan, these lectures combine the theological and biblical insights of classic evangelistic training with the latest insights from missiology on contextualization, cultural hermeneutics, and storytelling. Every session is illustrated with real-world examples drawn from over fifteen years of evangelistic ministry. These are methods that really work–getting past the defensive posture that many people have toward Christianity so they can seriously consider the claims of Jesus Christ.
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Evangelism in a Skeptical World
- By: Sam Chan
- Narrator: Sam Chan
- Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan Academic
- Publish date: November 24, 2020
- Language: English
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4.2(396 ratings)
4.2(396 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDMost Christians already know that they should be telling their friends about Jesus. But they have been poorly equipped with methods that are no longer effective in today’s post-Christian world. As a result, many people become frustrated, blameMost Christians already know that they should be telling their friends about Jesus. But they have been poorly equipped with methods that are no longer effective in today’s post-Christian world. As a result, many people become frustrated, blame themselves, and simply give up. Evangelism in a Skeptical World is a textbook on evangelism that is ideal for the church or the classroom to equip Christians with the principles and skills they need to tell the unbelievable news about Jesus to friends in a skeptical world.
Many of the older principles and methods of evangelism in the twentieth century no longer work effectively today. In a post-Christian, post-churched, post-reached world we need new methods to communicate the timeless message of the gospel in culturally relevant ways. Dr. Chan combines the theological and biblical insights of classic evangelistic training with the latest insights from missiology on contextualization, cultural hermeneutics, and storytelling. Every chapter is illustrated with real-world examples drawn from over fifteen years of evangelistic ministry. These are methods that really work – with university students, urban workers, and professionals – getting past the defensive posture that people have toward Christianity so they can seriously consider the claims of Jesus Christ.
Field-tested and filled with unique, fresh, and creative insights, this book will equip you to share the gospel in today’s world and help as many people as possible hear the good news about Jesus.
Charts, links, and appendixes are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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Emotionally Healthy Discipleship
- By: Peter Scazzero
- Narrator: Peter Scazzero
- Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: March 30, 2021
- Language: English
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4.14(1201 ratings)
4.14(1201 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDThe global church is facing a discipleship crisis. Here’s how we move forward into transformative discipleship… Pastors and church leaders want to see lives changed by the gospel. They work tirelessly to care for people, initiate newThe global church is facing a discipleship crisis. Here’s how we move forward into transformative discipleship…
Pastors and church leaders want to see lives changed by the gospel. They work tirelessly to care for people, initiate new ministries, preach creatively, and keep up with trends. Sadly, much of this effort does not result in deeply changed disciples.
Traditional discipleship strategies fail because they only address surface issues and do not go deep enough into the emotional health of individuals.
But transformative, emotionally healthy discipleship is a methods-based biblical theology that, when fully implemented, informs every area of a church, ministry, or organization. It is a discipleship structure built from the center that:
- Slows down our lives so we can cultivate a deep, personal relationship with Jesus.
- Challenges the values of Western culture that have compromised the radical call to follow the crucified Jesus.
- Integrates sadness, loss, and vulnerability, that, when left out, leave people defensive and easily triggered.
- Acknowledges God’s gift of limits in our lives.
- Connects how our family and personal history influence our discipleship in the present.
- Measures our spiritual maturity by how we are growing in our ability to love others.
In Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, bestselling author Pete Scazzero takes leaders step-by-step through how to create an emotionally healthy culture and multiply deeply-changed people in every aspect of church life, including:
- Leadership and team development
- Marriage and single ministry
- Small groups and youth and children’s ministry
- Preaching, worship, and administration
- Outreach
Complete with assessments and practical strategies, Emotionally Healthy Discipleship will help you move people to the beneath-the-surface discipleship that actually has the power to change the world.
**Graphics, assessments, and appendixes are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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Sticky Teams
- By: Larry Osborne
- Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: April 06, 2010
- Language: English
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4.11(1075 ratings)
4.11(1075 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDLearn the secrets to building and maintaining a healthy, productive, and unified ministry team that sticks together for the long haul. Serving as a church leader can be a tough calling. Whatever your role, odds are you’ve known your share ofLearn the secrets to building and maintaining a healthy, productive, and unified ministry team that sticks together for the long haul.
Serving as a church leader can be a tough calling. Whatever your role, odds are you’ve known your share of the frustration and disillusionment that comes with turf battles, conflicting vision, and marathon meetings. You may have asked yourself, “How did it get this way?”
With twenty years of front-line ministry experience, Larry Osborne understands congregations (as baffling as they can sometimes be) and he know how the best-intentioned teams can become disrupted and disunified. With this book, he aims to shore up the foundation of a healthy team–what does a unified and thriving church leadership look like and how can it be achieved?
Sticky Teams is divided into three main sections, dealing with key aspects of what it takes to develop long-term, efficient harmony:
- Landmines and Roadblocks exposes the organizational structures, policies, and traditions that can unintentionally sabotage even the best of teams. You’ll discover strategies for managing conflicts and getting around obstacles.
- Equipped for Ministry explores what it takes to get everyone on the same page and headed in the same direction. Chapters deal with practical tips for board, staff, and congregational alignment.
- Communication examines what it takes to keep everyone on the same page, with a special emphasis on some especially dicey areas and issues of ministry, such as conversations about money.
Whatever your situation; from start-up phase, to mid-sized, to megachurch, Osborne has been there. As the pastor of North Coast Church, he’s walked his board, staff, and congregation through the process of becoming more genuinely unified, and, because of that, better able to carry out God’s design for his church.
With warm encouragement and insight, he shares expertise that most pastors and leadership teams learn only from long experience: how to invest the time to create church harmony and how to lead so that unity is maintained long-term.
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Evangelical Catholicism
- By: George Weigel
- Narrator: David Cochran Heath
- Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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4.05(264 ratings)
4.05(264 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe Catholic Church is on the threshold of a bold new era in its two-thousand-year history. As the curtain comes down on the church defined by the sixteenth-century Counter-Reformation, the curtain is rising on the Evangelical Catholicism of theThe Catholic Church is on the threshold of a bold new era in its two-thousand-year history. As the curtain comes down on the church defined by the sixteenth-century Counter-Reformation, the curtain is rising on the Evangelical Catholicism of the third millennium: a way of being Catholic that comes from over a century of Catholic reform; a mission-centered renewal honed by the Second Vatican Council and given compelling expression by Blessed John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI.
The gospel-centered Evangelical Catholicism of the future will send all the people of the church into mission territory every day–a territory increasingly defined in the West by spiritual boredom and aggressive secularism. Confronting both these cultural challenges and the shadows cast by recent Catholic history, Evangelical Catholicism unapologetically proclaims the gospel of Jesus Christ as the truth of the world. It also molds disciples who witness to faith, hope, and love by the quality of their lives and the nobility of their aspirations. Thus the Catholicism of the twenty-first century and beyond will be a culture-forming counterculture, offering all men and women of good will a deeply humane alternative to the soul-stifling self-absorption of postmodernity.
Drawing on thirty years of experience throughout the Catholic world, from its humblest parishes to its highest levels of authority, George Weigel proposes a deepening of faith-based and mission-driven Catholic reform that touches every facet of Catholic life–from the episcopate and the papacy to the priesthood and the consecrated life; from the renewal of the lay vocation in the world to the redefinition of the church’s engagement with public life; from the liturgy to the church’s intellectual life. Lay Catholics and clergy alike should welcome the challenge of this unique moment in the church’s history. Mediocrity is not an option, and all Catholics, no matter what their station in life, are called to live the evangelical vocation into which they were baptized: without compromise but with the joy, courage, and confidence that comes from living this side of the Resurrection.
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The Slumber of Christianity
- By: Ted Dekker
- Narrator: Ted Dekker
- Length: 3 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: October 24, 2011
- Language: English
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4.01(926 ratings)
4.01(926 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDAs believers, our walk with God is motivated by hope-not the bland, vague notion most people have, but the expectation of an exotic, pleasurable inheritance that guides us and fires our passion…or, at least, should. Ted Dekker has written anAs believers, our walk with God is motivated by hope-not the bland, vague notion most people have, but the expectation of an exotic, pleasurable inheritance that guides us and fires our passion…or, at least, should.
Ted Dekker has written an expose on the death of pleasure within the Church. Because many of us have set aside hope and the inspired imagination that drives it, Dekker says we have been lulled into a slumber of boredom, even despondency. Our faith wanes, the joy at having been liberated fades, and we feel powerless. The Slumber of Christianity explores what robs us of happiness and how we can rediscover it and live lives that rekindle hope. The pursuit of pleasure is a gift to all humans-a function of the Creator himself, who is bent upon our happiness.
It’s time for Christians to reclaim our inheritance of pleasure. The Slumber of Christianity will inflame hearts toward full-fledged, mind-expanding encounters with hope, through the imagination.
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A Multi-Site Church Roadtrip
- By: Geoff Surratt
- Narrator: Geoff Surratt
- Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: December 08, 2009
- Language: English
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3.78(21 ratings)
3.78(21 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDWhat is the rapidly expanding multi-site church movement all about? Experience the revolution for yourself and see why it has become the “new normal” for growing churches. A Multi-Site Church Roadtrip takes pastors, church leaders, andWhat is the rapidly expanding multi-site church movement all about? Experience the revolution for yourself and see why it has become the “new normal” for growing churches. A Multi-Site Church Roadtrip takes pastors, church leaders, and anyone who is interested on a tour of multi-site churches across America to see how those churches are handling the opportunities and challenges raised by this dynamic organizational model.Travel with tour guides Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, and Warren Bird, authors of The Multi-Site Church Revolution, and enjoy engaging and humorous on-site narratives that show you the creative ways churches of all kinds are expanding their impact through multiple locations. Hear the inside stories and learn about the latest developments. Find out firsthand how the churches in this book are broadening their options for evangelism, service, and outreach–while making better use of their ministry funds. Since each church on this tour is unique, you won’t find a cookie-cutter approach to ministry. Instead, you’ll gain some practical tools you can use to explore a multi-site direction at your own church.
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Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church
- By: D. A. Carson
- Narrator: D. A. Carson
- Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: November 28, 2008
- Language: English
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3.72(493 ratings)
3.72(493 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDA careful and informed assessment of the “emerging church” by a respected author and scholarThe “emerging church” movement has generated a lot of excitement and exerts an astonishingly broad influence. Is it the wave of theA careful and informed assessment of the “emerging church” by a respected author and scholarThe “emerging church” movement has generated a lot of excitement and exerts an astonishingly broad influence. Is it the wave of the future or a passing fancy? Who are the leaders and what are they saying? The time has come for a mature assessment. D. A. Carson not only gives those who may be unfamiliar with it a perceptive introduction to the emerging church movement, but also includes a skillful assessment of its theological views. Carson addresses some troubling weaknesses of the movement frankly and thoughtfully, while at the same time recognizing that it has important things to say to the rest of Christianity. The author strives to provide a perspective that is both honest and fair.Anyone interested in the future of the church in a rapidly changing world will find this an informative and stimulating read.D. A. Carson (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He is the author of over 45 books, including the Gold Medallion Award-winning book The Gagging of God, and is general editor of Telling the Truth and Worship by the Book. He has served as a pastor and is an active guest lecturer in church and academic settings around the world.
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The Monkey and the Fish
- By: Dave Gibbons
- Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: January 19, 2010
- Language: English
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3.54(170 ratings)
3.54(170 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDOur world is marked by unprecedented degrees of multiculturalism, ethnic diversity, social shifts, international collaboration, and technology-driven changes. The changes are profound, especially when you consider the unchecked decline in theOur world is marked by unprecedented degrees of multiculturalism, ethnic diversity, social shifts, international collaboration, and technology-driven changes. The changes are profound, especially when you consider the unchecked decline in the influence, size, and social standing of the church. There is an undercurrent of anxiety in the evangelical world, and a hunger for something new. And we’re sensing the urgency of it.We need fresh, creative counterintuitive ways of doing ministry and church and leading it in the 21st century. We need to adapt. Fast. Both in our practices and our thinking. The aim of this book is simple: When we understand the powerful forces at work in the world today, we’ll learn how something called The Third Culture can yield perhaps the most critical missing ingredient in the church today—adaptability—and help the church remain on the best side of history. A Third Culture Church and a Third Culture Leader looks at our new global village and the church’s role in that village in a revolutionary way. It’s a way to reconnect with the historical roots of what Jesus envisioned the church could be—a people known for a brand of love, unity, goodness, and extravagant spirit that defies all conventions. This book is part of the successful Leadership Innovation Series.
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One in Christ
- By: David D. Ireland, , PhD
- Narrator: Calvin Robinson
- Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Two Words Publishing, LLC
- Publish date: March 26, 2018
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDRacial disharmony is tearing communities apart, both inside and outside the church. But Jesus Christ is, and was, a great reconciler. Warmth, regard, and respect emanated from His person toward others-all others. Part of this allure was the factRacial disharmony is tearing communities apart, both inside and outside the church. But Jesus Christ is, and was, a great reconciler. Warmth, regard, and respect emanated from His person toward others-all others. Part of this allure was the fact that Jesus was comfortable in His own skin. This made others who approached Him comfortable in their skin too. This quality fuels the deconstruction of walls-the tearing down of barriers that keep us apart. In One in Christ, pastor and NBA diversity consultant David Ireland shows us that this quality can be learned. The cellular structure of Christianity is the ability to be cross-cultural. The Great Commission proclaims it. Jesus said Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations. The word nation is the Greek word ethnos, from which we derive the English word ethnic. Essentially, the last charge Jesus gave was for His followers to become cross-cultural ambassadors. This is not optional: we must each become racially accommodating.
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