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Josh Hunt, Author
You Can Double Your Class
in Two Years or Less

• How to Get 90% of Your Visitors to Join Your Church
• What every church could learn from DGrin
• Does this really work?
• What makes groups grow. Part 1
• What makes groups grow. Part 2
• What makes groups grow. Part 3
• What makes groups grow. Part 4
• What makes groups grow. Part 5
• What makes groups grow. Part 6
• Should we cut the outreach budget?
• The central message of the church (and your class!)
• The central message of the church (and your class!) Part 2
• The central message of the church (and your class!) Part 3
• The central message of the church (and your class!) Part 4
• The best $200 your church will ever spend
• How to get visitors to fill out cards
• Does reclaiming church members matter?
• Don't confuse the door with the house
• Three Sunday Schools or two?
• Why is the biggest Associational Sunday Sunday School training event in California?
• Dinner and a Bible Study
• Need a speaker for your ladies retreat?
• FREE Training using other people's money
• Mother's Day Outreach
• Then will I teach transgressors
• Goals 2008
• The Spidar and the Starfish
• Two words that can transform any lesson
• Overwhelmed
• 50,000 in doubling groups in one church
• The Secret to Sunday School growth
• Application, Application, Application
• 3 Marks of WOW classes
• Five more marks of great groups
• Man looks on the outward appearance
• Making a Lesson Stick
• Do we ask for too much?
• Scripture memory
• Postmillennialism
• My greatest compliment
• The Gift of Good Questions
• Two good (and opposite) ways to teach
• The real problem
• The Likeable Teacher
• Time Management for Teachers
• The Growth Funnel
• Four questions you can use at least once a month
• How to influence, Part one
• How to influence, Part 2
• The repeated phrase
• Reinventing the Quiet Time
• Vision Day
• ReGroup
• How to tell a story
• Bill Hybels endorses Friday Nights for Jesus
• Maybe you should pay people to go to your church
• The key to just about everything
• Closing the gap between worship and groups
• The race goes to those who TRAIN
• The Normal Church
• Normal churches double
• Leadership is over-rated
• Lifeway weighs in on party evangelism
• Saturday Morning Training
• Regional Double Presenters
• Lessons from the travel business
• The Secret Message of Jesus
• The Xenos Way of Doubling Groups
• Coaching Life-Changing Small Group Leaders
• Coaching Life-Changing Small Group Leaders part 2
• Simple Church
• Communicating for a Change
• Communicating for a Change, Part 2
• How God Saves Us
• Reaching a kid-crazed culture
• An idea for your Association
• How to take great digital pictures
• How to double a denomination
• Learning to Double--LONG DISTANCE
• Why don't they believe?
• How Ideas Spread
• How to start a doubling group movement in your church
• One group to eight groups in four years
• How to grow a church without visitation
• The single biggest change in church in my lifetime
• Pizza on Sunday
• 24 new groups in one week
• Pastor, you gotta hear this sermon
• Give your teachers 1,637 lessons (and counting) for Christmas
• The First Five Minutes
• The First Five Minutes, Part 2
• What is God up to?
• How to change a church
• Sunday School problems are not Sunday School Problems
• How to Create Community in Your Group
• If I were a pastor
• Sunday School reports all time high attendance
• Why house churches are booming
• Why house churches are booming, part 2
• How to give a Sunday School Report
• May is Teacher Appreciation Month
• My all-time favoritie literature
• Doubling Teachers are Happy Teachers
• Doubling Bob Roberts Style
• God's plan for the poor
• My First Podcast
• Double Your Youth Ministry
• How Cool Is Your Church?
• Barna Reports Good News
• Execution
• Don't go into ministry; grow into ministry.
• Crossing the racial divide
• PyroMarketing
• The Insanity of the Church
• You Can Do This!
• What Is the Gospel?
• The Coming House Church Revolution
• The New Life Way
• This Year's Best Book--The Dream Giver
• The Northpoint Way
• A mere 20 Million
• Worship or Sunday School?
• Prime Time
• Small things can make a BIG difference
• If I were a Minister of Education
• How Strong is God's Bench?
• Is it really all about a relationship?
• Sunday School or Home Groups?
• Sunday School or Home Groups? Part 2
• We can all do something
• Live with Passion
• Disciplemaking Teachers
• The Coming Multi-site Revolution
• 10 Simple Secrets of the World's Greatest Business Communicators
• Dieting and Doubling
• Church Planting Movements
• Homes of Hope Summit
• The Celtic Way of Doubling Groups
• The Treasure
• Bring the books!
• This really works
• This really works, Part #2
• If I only had 182 day to live
• If I Were a Pastor
• Personal log 2005
• Reward Your Teachers
• Goals: 2005
• Learn it; Live it; Teach it
• What do all growing churches have in common?
• Breakout Churches
• Breakout Churches #2
• Party Night!
• Lifeway's best
• How to Break the 200 Barrier
• Does Training Matter?
• How to get teachers to double
• Music Wars, Part #2
• Music Wars
• You don't have to teach an old church new tricks
• In Praise of Small
• Why are we not doubling already?
• How to become a Double Your Class Presenter
• Doubling Woodstock Style
• How big is a small group?
• A short course on teaching kids
• Bribing Little Bobby to learn the Bible
• Robert Lewis's Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock, AR offers a new way to make groups Irresistible
• How to Baptize One Million People
• Go Bobby Welch!
• My Opinion on Purpose Driven Life Campaign
• It is not about the lesson; It is about the life
• Finally! A web-based way to manage the Double Your Class (T.I.G.E.R.) System
• Groups at Ted Haggard's New Life Community Church are running wild!
• What about Judea? Perhaps your church should start a Church Growth Training Center
• The parable of the NO-GOOD DOG FOOD Company
• How any group leader can impact 1000 people in the next 10 years
• Bill Hybels ACTS Model for Recruiting Workers
• Andy Stanley is betting the farm on doubling groups
• An Open Letter to Lifeway
• The Fastest Growing Church in the World
• It is never too late
• Why I Love the Church
• My Valentine
• Never be lacking in zeal
• The Single Most Important Media Event Your Church
• An inviting campaign
• Try Lots of Stuff
• Why Visitation Doesn't Work
• Go Deep!
• 5 ways to improve your pastor's preaching
• How to do a year end evaluation
• Exceeding Expectations
• Bring your cell phone to church
• Widening the Front Door
• A disappointing letter
• The Best Conference Ever
• 3000 to 6000 in one year
• Is there a future for Old Military Road Baptist?
• One Magnificent Obsession
• The fun problems to solve
• What made this possible?
• Life is too short
• Leadership and Management
• It all makes sense now
• 8 Things Teachers Must Have to Double
• What gets rewarded gets done, part 2
• What gets rewarded gets done
• Is Jesus all we need?
• The gospel of good news and bad news
• Which would you rather have. . .
• Multiple Services
• Let's Get Personal
• The Real Reason Groups Don't Double
• It Ain't Rocket Science
• Reality Principle
• The Beloved
• Taking care of Easter Visitors
• The 3.14 State
• I.N.C.R.E.D.I.B.L.E. Teachers
• I have seen the future
• How Beautiful!
• The God Who Serves
• Conversational Prayer
• Four Quadrants
• Personal log
• Power of WOW!
• We Don't Need Teachers. . .
• How NOT to buy a new church building
• Your youth group can transform your church
• Two teachers are easier to get than one
• The coming singles revolution
• This Is a Football
• The Single Most Important Factor
• I Have Seen the Future!
• Why Northwest Baptist Will Double
• The Coming Singles Revolution
• Two Teachers May Be Easier to Find Than One
• Your Youth Group Can Change Your Church
• (How the "Rock the Flock 9.3.0 Service changed my church
• How to Buy a Church Building
• We Don't Need Teachers
• Power Lunch & the Four Quadrants
• Personal Log
• The Order of Things
• The Best Story of 2002
• Interactive Video Supplement Released
• An Epidemic of Loneliness
• What Are We Trying To Create?
• Three Marks of Great Teaching
• The Second Priority is the Key
• MP3 Will Change Your Life and Ministry
• The Attractiveness of God
• An Open Letter to a Pastor who Doubled
• How a “3” Can Be a “10”
• The Most Shocking Discovery of the Summer
• Two Questions That Can Change Eternity
• Jonathan Only Lived About Fifteen Minutes
• Big, Big Dream
• Benchmarks Get You Doubling
• Is Your Group Like the New York City Bus or Tour Bus?
• How to Make Web Pages that Attract Visitors
• The Best Idea Since Whiteboard
• The Power of the Celebrity
• The Longing
• God Commands Shrewdness
• The Franchising of America
• One Cool Way to do Training
• What divorce taught me about marriage.
• Alpha: A NEW Way to Reach People 
• Lessons on Servant Evangelism 
• I Love It!
• The Church Exists as a Small Group
• Deal Killers to Disciplemaking
• We Teach Too Little Because We Try to Teach Too Much
• Making Class Interesting When the Passage is Boring
• Getting Your Class To Talk
• Chainsaw Method For Improving Sabbath School
• CARING: AN ESSENTIAL FOR ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL
• IT'S THE "TUDE" THAT MATTERS!
• HOW TO PLAN AND CONDUCT MULTIPLE SUNDAY SCHOOLS
• BABY BOOMERS: A TEACHING CHALLENGE
• THE BOOMERS ARE COMING!
• STARTING A HISPANIC FAMILY BIBLE STUDY
• STARTING  HISPANIC HOME BIBLE STUDIES

• How to Start an Off-Campus Bible Study
• If I Were a Denominational Worker
• How do churches grow anyway?
• The One Time When Giving Friday Nights to Jesus Does Not Work
• High Expectations Churches
• Changes That Heal, by Dr. Henry Cloud
• You've Got to Be Believed to Be Heard by Bert Decker
  • Chapter Two: Emotion Versus Fact
  • Chapter Three: Your Personal Impact
• What is a Sunday School Director to Do?
• "What to Say When You're Dyin' On the Platform!" by Lilly Walters
• Secrets of Successful Speakers - How You Can Motivate, Captivate and Persuade" by Lilly Walters
• Inspire Any Audience, by Tony Jeary
• Church Growth Strategy: Our Reachable Nation
• Philosophy Behind Good Question Sunday School Lessons
• RESPONDING TO LEARNER PARTICIPATION by Terry Powell You Can Lead a Bible Discussion Group
• "10 Surprises" by Thom Rainer Effective Evangelistic Churches
• Why Nobody Learns Much of Anything At Church Anymore and How to Fix It by Thom and Joani Schultz
• 7 Laws of the Learner by Bruce Wilkinson
• Church Growth by Dictaphoneing Around
• Enjoying God and Sharing the Joy
• Enjoying God and the Church
• Enjoying God and the Kingdom
• How Big Is Your Dream?
• The Nike Church Growth Formula: Just Do It!
• What Really Keeps Churches and Classes From Growing?
• Saintmaking: Its Tougher Than You Think
• The Real Key to Church Growth: Good News Always, Always, Always Travels Fast
• The Skillful Use of Questions in Teaching Adults
• When Not to Teach
• Too Much Prayer in the Classroom Can Kill Your Group
• People Who Are Opposed to the Gospel Are Not Opposed to Ice Cream
• Recruiting People to Ministry
• How to Reproduce New Groups
• Four Reasons Why the Multiple Services Can Help Get Church Growth
• How to Introduce a Contemporary Service in a Traditional Church and Double Your Attendance
• Saturday Night's All Right For Worship
• How to Muzzle the Overly Talkative Person
• The Power of "Wow!"
• The Priority of Small Group Life
• How Do You Measure Success?
• Good Question: Why Questions Are the Best Way to Teach Adults
• Ten Marks of Great Teachers
• The Importance of a Half-way Decent Lesson
• How to Create Tension in Class