Leading Lazarus
8 Transformational Frameworks to Resurrect Your Culture
#1 Amazon Best-Selling Author Jared Fabac · RW Publishing · Released September 6, 2026
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Leading Lazarus Hits #1 on Amazon in Three Categories
Pastor Jared Fabac's debut leadership book reaches the top of Christian Leadership, Religious Leadership, and Christian Professional Growth within weeks of release.
Virginia Beach, VA — September 2026
Leading Lazarus: 8 Transformational Frameworks to Resurrect Your Culture, the debut book from Pastor Jared Fabac, has reached #1 on Amazon in three categories: Christian Leadership, Religious Leadership, and Christian Professional Growth. The book also claimed the #1 spot in Amazon Hot New Releases for all three categories.
Released September 6, 2026 by RW Publishing, the book climbed the charts over its first weeks on the strength of reader word of mouth, holding a 5.0 rating. It is Fabac's first book.
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Amazon Best Seller
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Amazon best-seller rankings, captured September 25, 2026 · 5.0 rating, 50+ reviews
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The Field Manual
What the Book Is
A field manual, not a memoir.
Leading Lazarus is the culmination of the best leadership frameworks Pastor Jared Fabac has encountered across 20 years of executive leadership in church, business, and community. Every framework in the book was pressure-tested against real teams before it made the final cut.
What It Is Not
Not a leadership memoir. Not another platform book. Not theory. The book contains no filler chapters and no shell frameworks. Each of the eight is meant to be applied in the reader's own context.
Content
The 8 Frameworks
Grace and Truth Matrix
A discipline for holding both at once in hard conversations.
Path, Plan, Pledge
The three-part answer every team needs before movement.
S.T.E.P. Goals
A rebellion against vague goals, in goal-setting form.
C.O.R.E. Feedback
Clarify, Own, Reframe, Elevate. A repeatable feedback structure.
The Peace Index
A weekly team-health score.
Modeling and Multiplication
Culture is what you model, then multiply.
Coaching Pathway
Coached repetition, not unstructured experience, is what makes great leaders.
Change Compass
How to pick the right fights and let go of the wrong ones.
Foundational Research
Culture Resurrection Index
Important framing for reporters
The CRI is foundational research, not book content. When citing CRI data, please use: "According to the Culture Resurrection Index, a 1,000-respondent field study commissioned by Pastor Jared Fabac as foundational research for his book Leading Lazarus..."
Cross-sectional
Survey Type
1,000
Respondents
Spring 2026
Field Dates
±3.1 pts
Margin of Error
have seriously considered leaving vocational ministry in the last five years
of those cited culture — not compensation — as the primary reason
have never been trained in a repeatable framework for giving hard feedback
report they have no repeatable, named framework for giving performance feedback
rate feedback as the most important skill they use in a given week
have left, or seriously considered leaving, a job in the last five years primarily because of culture
teams whose leaders use a named feedback framework are more likely to describe their culture as healthy
have never written down a family vision statement or a set of shared values
report that the same argument keeps happening in their home under different circumstances
who have written a family vision describe their family culture as healthy — versus only 36% of those who have not
describe their current team culture as healthy
describe their most recent quarterly goals as vague or hard to measure when they set them
name the most common reason as: we have never agreed out loud on how to move forward
wish they had a repeatable practice for hard conversations with their kids
Self-reported. Every finding is a self-assessment by the respondent, not an outside audit. Subgroup findings carry a wider margin (approx. ±4.9 points). The 2.3× finding describes a correlation, not a causal claim. Full methodology and dataset available for credentialed press on request.
Author
Approved Bios
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For social bios, quote graphics, and short endorsement asks.
Pastor Jared Fabac is the Lead Pastor of One City Church and #1 Amazon best-selling author of Leading Lazarus: 8 Transformational Frameworks to Resurrect Your Culture (Sept. 6, 2026).
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Quote Library
All quotes may be used verbatim in print, broadcast, or digital. Attribution: "Pastor Jared Fabac, author of Leading Lazarus."
Quote 01 · Book Opening
"Lazarus didn't walk out of the tomb because he tried harder. Someone with authority called him."
Pastor Jared Fabac, Leading Lazarus
Quote 02 · Culture, Not Personnel
"You cannot fire your way out of a bad culture. You cannot hire your way out either. Both are lagging moves."
Pastor Jared Fabac, Leading Lazarus
Quote 03 · Pastor Departure
"Pastors aren't leaving because they lost their faith. They're leaving because no one taught them how to lead a broken staff."
Pastor Jared Fabac, Leading Lazarus
Quote 04 · Practice Over Program
"Programs don't build culture. Practices do."
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Quote 05 · Church Growth Industry
"The church growth industry sells more programs. Declining churches don't have a program deficit. They have a culture deficit."
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Quote 06 · Modeling
"Culture is built by what leaders model. If the model doesn't change, the personnel changes are theater."
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Quote 07 · Reading vs. Doing
"You can read a leadership book in a weekend. You can't rebuild a culture in one."
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Quote 08 · Family Application
"Families run on assumed shared vision. It's almost never actually shared."
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Quote 09 · Rooms vs. Books
"Books introduce. Rooms convert."
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Quote 10 · Feedback Reality
"The good leaders wing it well. The rest wing it badly. Both groups burn out their teams."
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Quote 11 · Naming the Death
"Every dying culture is waiting for the same thing. Someone willing to name the death, and someone willing to call it forward."
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Quote 12 · The Closing Line
"The tomb is not the end. It's the beginning of a resurrection story, if someone shows up to call the stone away."
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For Producers & Hosts
Interviewer Question Guide
Twelve questions Pastor Jared answers particularly well. Sample answers are included so producers can pre-brief hosts.
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Press Release
For immediate release — Leading Lazarus hits #1 on Amazon in three categories.
Complete Media Kit
Full press package — book facts, bios, quote library, CRI summary, and interview guide.
Author Bio Sheet
Four approved bios at four lengths (30, 60, 120, 300 words). Use verbatim without further approval.
Boilerplate Language
Approved end-of-release language and the standard media contact block. Use verbatim.
CRI Methodology & Topline
Full methodology and topline findings from the 1,000-respondent Culture Resurrection Index.
Interviewer FAQ
13 questions Pastor Jared answers particularly well, with full sample answers for host prep.
Book One-Pager
Everything about the book on one sheet — formatted for editors and producers.
Approved Quote Library
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