The Discipling Leaders Series

The Discipling Leaders series by Mac Lake trains leaders in the essential leadership competencies for the various levels of leadership in your church.

From leading yourself to leading others to leading the church, these books provide the pathway to prepare leaders with the competency and character to succeed at every level.

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Great leaders know that the first person they must lead is themselves. In Leading Yourself, Mac Lake offers a transformative step-by-step guide to developing the essential character and competency required for self-leadership.

Drawing on over 30 years of experience, Mac combines biblical principles with practical insights to help you lead yourself with purpose and integrity in your personal life, relationships, career, and ministry.

What You’ll Discover:

  • Practical Application: Packed with examples, reflective questions, and actionable steps to foster real transformation—not just information.

  • Six Key Areas of Self-Leadership: Master these crucial areas to lead yourself with excellence and maturity.

  • Bonus Resources: Includes additional tools and exercises to help you implement what you learn and put self-leadership into action.

  • Small Group Guide: Features a dedicated group discussion guide in the back of the book to facilitate meaningful conversations and collective growth in a small group setting.

 

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Equip your teams & multiply your impact

Imagine the impact of leaders across your church or organization growing in self-leadership—volunteers leading with confidence, team members taking ownership, and small groups deepening their character and competence together.

Leading Yourself is more than just a book—it’s a tool for transformation. Designed for group study, it includes built-in facilitation guides, making it easy to integrate into:

Volunteer training – Help your teams lead with self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and teamwork.
Small groups – Equip members with practical, faith-driven leadership development.

To make it easy to equip your teams, we’re offering 10% off bulk orders of 50+ books—use code BULK10 at checkout.

 

Multiply Group’s Mission

We exist to equip you with an intentional approach to multiply healthy leaders because the mission of the Gospel is too great to be left to chance.

What we do

Do you find yourself frustrated with an unhealthy or underperforming team? Are you facing challenges in developing leaders within your organization? Do you long to witness a movement in your city and see the Kingdom advance?

We have partnered with hundreds of churches and organizations in building intentional strategies utilizing our frameworks to overcome these challenges and more, and we believe you can experience the same thing.

Founded by Mac Lake in 2019, our organization draws upon a strong foundation from Mac's 30+ years in ministry, which includes; church planting, scaling a large multisite churches' leadership development processes, starting a church planting network and assessment, to helping hundreds of churches around the world build intentional strategies for developing more and better leaders. We are now a team with trainers across the US and around the world with the same mission, to equip you with an intentional approach to multiply healthy leaders because the mission of the Gospel is too great to be left to chance.

We provide several services to accomplish that mission and transform your organization. From Leadership Accelerator, a team training that teaches our eight-part framework to cultivate healthy, high-performing leaders within staff teams, to Leadership Pipeline Training, which equips your organization to build an intentional pathway and plan for developing leaders across the organization. Additionally, our Multiplying Church Workshop provides a two-day immersive experience where a group of churches collaboratively create plans to multiply healthy churches in and around their cities. We have also curated a Speakers Network to help support your team's ongoing training and development.

Whether you're interested in our free resources, or purchasing our books and training resources to develop or support your strategy, or seeking guidance through our coaching and consulting options, we want to partner with you in multiplying healthy leaders.

If you need help deciding where to begin, we offer a free explore call with one of our team and we will assist you in determining how to develop more and better leaders and taking your organization to the next level.

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