The greatest need of our time is more effective leadership. It is sheer folly to think that the people who led us well during Modernity can give us the same quality of leadership in the postmodern/pre-Christian world. Churches need to pour more time, energy, and money into training than they do construction. For more […]
From Bill Easum
The key to endowments is how they are set up. Don’t set them up where you are locked into a maintenance mentality
Use the Endowment to thrive instead of survive. Use it in a way that secures the future of the church’s ministry. It is not a matter of whether it is used for capital […]
Dysfunctional means a number of things to me. Primarily it refers to an emotionally and/or socially unhealthy person, any type of ongoing behavior that is not healthy to the person or persons around them. It could mean serious 12 step issues or it could be a highly controlling person who wants to control everything and everyone […]
1n 2007, 36 U.S. churches average over 10,000 people each week, putting them in a category called “giga” churches. Bill Easum was the first to use this term in an interview by the Washington Post.
Also, the fastest growing churches are those over 5,000 in worship; in other words the biggest churches are getting bigger.
On […]
For excellent resources see Bill Easum, Unfreezing Moves
What Bill says works with controllers because controllers are all about trying to maintain the status quo and maintain homeostasis. That’s how they keep control. If you focus on your controllers, then you are simply contributing to the anxiety, and sooner or later the anxiety will focus […]
From Bill Easum
It is my belief multiple pastors is a model for the 21st century. Here are some examples and some thoughts. You can find more in my book Leadership On The Otherside: No Rules, Just Clues to be published in June of 2000.
Fellowship Bible in Little Rock AR began with four equal pastors […]
Other than yourself have a friend, your supervisor, and a person with whom you work in ministry fill out the following:
1. Visioning capacity
being a person who projects into the future beyond the present
developing a theme which highlights the vision and philosophy of ministry
persuasively selling the vision to the people
approaching […]
According to Forbes Magazine, new businesses starting with partners were four times more likely to succeed than those who started with solo entrepreneurs. Do not start alone.
A suggested planting team consists of the following members:
Team leader (Pastor):
Full-time, paid.
A magnetic personality, networker, entrepreneur, who attracts a diversity of people.
Worship leader:
Full-time, paid.
Recruiter of various types of […]
By Bill Easum
My heart aches.
Too many new church plants either don’t make it past eighteen months or remain so small they can barely survive much less thrive. Why do so many church plants not reach their potential?
It certainly isn’t because they don’t try or don’t care. Church planters usually have a heart of gold. […]
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