Staffing the Church
Like everything else in today’s world, the way spiritual redwood churches are staffing themselves is rapidly changing. Church leaders in declining churches are finding these changes extremely hard to comprehend, much less attempt. This inability to comprehend and make the necessary changes is a critical flaw in most declining churches. I think it is fair […]
Starting a Visual Worship Service
Bill Easum 1. After a lengthy discussion on contemporary worship, a woman in her seventies approached me with this question; “Why can’t these young people learn to like my music?” I responded; “Why can’t you learn to like their music?” She thought for a moment and then made a remarkably insightful reply. “The answer is […]
Stewardship in the Christmas Spirit
Bill Easum I remember as a child seeing the large red Santa standing by the large black kettle. Santa rang a bell, inviting people to throw money into the big pot. I didn’t know anything about the Salvation Army then. I had never been to church except on one or two Easters. So I always […]
Stragetic Mappers
Bill Easum Those who follow my antics know that I make a distinction between strategic planning and strategic mapping. To put it bluntly, I don’t think we have time in a warp-speed world to do extensive planning. Moreover, there’s not enough reliable information on hand about the future to do strategic planning. However, I do […]
Suggestions for Christmas
Bill Easum The Christmas season is just around the corner and it’s one of the best times of the year to reach unchurched people. I even think Christmas Eve is more important than Easter when it comes to reaching unchurched people. People attend worship on Easter because it’s the thing to do- or it used […]
The Apostolic Movement in the Emerging World
From time to time, I write about movements that I see emerging. The last three movements I wrote about were local churches establishing and staffing church planting centers within their churches, congregations with more than one location, and churches and organizations whose goal is to reach their city for Christ. All three of these movements […]