The Nehemiah Way: GCD's Latest Book
Mobilize a Church Full of Leaders
Gospel Centered Discipleship is excited to release our latest book, The Nehemiah Way: Mobilize a Church Full of Leaders.
What if your church could be a place where everyone is mobilized to lead and serve?
The Nehemiah Way is a thoughtful guide for pastors and lay leaders seeking to mobilize their congregations for meaningful ministry. Drawing on the wisdom of Nehemiah’s story, this book blends biblical insight with practical strategies to inspire collaboration, foster leadership, and build a thriving church community.
Whether facing obstacles, developing leaders, or striving to unify your church around a common mission, The Nehemiah Way offers practical tools to support your journey. Focusing on collaboration and purpose, this book helps you envision a thriving, united church making a lasting gospel impact.
Available in ebook, Kindle, and paperback formats today.
For bulk orders (more than 20 copies), GCD offers a 50% discount.
Join us at The Gospel Coalition 2025 Conference
John and Amy will be leading an auxiliary event on Thursday, April 24, at 7:30 a.m. to give you a vision of what a church full of volunteer leaders can accomplish. Through this event, we'll equip you with a vision for engagement and discovery of a church ready and equipped to serve and fulfill the Great Commission.
What Others Are Saying
The vision for your church should be too big to be pulled off by your staff and a handful of all-star volunteers. Maximizing the opportunity for your church to participate in the redemptive work of God will hinge on your ability to mobilize your congregation beyond the typical 20 percent. To that end, John and Amy have charted a Biblical yet highly practical course to activate the gifts and talents of your whole church family. Written from the perspective of volunteers, The Nehemiah Way provides a much-needed perspective on the unstoppable force of God’s people when they are focused, prepared, and prayed up for the mission of God. If you want to unleash your people, get this book, gather your leaders, and watch what God can do.
Brad House, Senior Executive Pastor at Woodside Bible Church in Troy, Michigan, and author of Community: Take Your Small Group Off Life Support and MultiChurch: Exploring the Future of Multisite.
Talk to any pastor or ministry leader, and they will likely tell you that one of the greatest conundrums they face is locating and mobilizing leaders in the church to do the church's work. Dr. John Wilson and Amy Lynch leverage years of experience serving as lay leaders in local church ministry to provide us with a Biblical vision for raising up leaders- the book of Nehemiah! Filled with pages of practical wisdom, this is a masterfully concise book for any church leader asking the question of how to empower their people to lead.
Ronnie Martin, Director of Leader Care and Renewal for Harbor Network and the Pastor-In-Residence at Redeemer Community Church in Bloomington, IN. He has authored several books, including The Unhurried Pastor (with Brian Croft), and is co-host of The Heart of Pastoring podcast with Jared C. Wilson.
To say this is simply a leadership book would be to grossly underestimate its ability to connect with nearly everyone in your church. There are countless books on leadership, many of them Christian, but a book with the ‘leadership’ label can be off-putting to some who don’t count themselves the leader type. The Nehemiah Way, however, is delightfully different. This book goes after the heart and faithfully connects Scripture to modern life, making it the perfect resource to move church members at the root level toward proactive, joyful co-laboring in gospel ministry. With engaging questions, group discussion prompts, and achievable key action steps after every chapter, this book is more than lay leaders rallying other lay leaders—it’s a treasure trove of biblical insight on how to call your church to take Nehemiah’s story very personally.”
-Shelby Abbott, author, speaker, and campus minister.
"The Nehemiah Way by John Wilson and Amy Lynch is a much-needed resource for churches seeking to equip everyday believers for gospel-driven leadership. With fresh insights from Nehemiah's life, this book offers a clear, practical framework to mobilize church members—not just pastors—for the work of ministry. If you want to see your church flourish with engaged, mission-minded leaders, you've found the right book!"
Jamaal Williams, co-author, In Church As it is in Heaven, Lead Pastor at Sojourn Midtown, President, Harbor Network.
In The Nehemiah Way, Lynch and Wilson lay out a practical and actionable framework to equip your church to embrace its mission. Following Nehemiah’s example of rebuilding Jerusalem’s walls, this book provides a roadmap to mobilize your congregation to accomplish big goals. It’s time to engage the 80% of the folks who are often glad to let the dedicated 20% get the job done. Learn how to deploy the whole church to work together and then witness your congregation rejoice over all God allowed them to do.
Marty Machowski, Family Pastor and Author of The Ology, Brave and Bold, The Redemption Tales series, and other gospel-rich resources for church and home.