Creating a Body of Christ Culture
Church leaders constantly ask us how to get people to commit enough time to do lay ministries. “My people are just too busy,” they say. Folks, let’s face it; that’s nothing more than a copout from doing authentic ministry. Most people have time to do what is meaningful to them. Sure, time is now as […]
Develop a Culture of Equipping
Bill Easum Church leaders constantly ask me how to get people to commit enough time to do lay ministries. “My people are just too busy,” they say. Folks, let’s face it; that’s nothing more than a copout from doing authentic ministry. Most people have time to do what is meaningful to them. Sure, time is […]
Developing a Healthy Culture
By Bill Easum Being stuck in a hotel with the flu gives one time to ask dumb questions. With nothing to do but sneeze and cough and watch TV, I turned to the Yankees and Red Sox game. While watching the game, the question popped into my head- why so much spitting? That afternoon, still […]
Creating Our Own Culture
Bill Easum I just finished one of the best books I have read in the last several years. The book is Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership, by Joseph Jaworski (Berett-Koehler) At first I wasn’t sure about the book. It begins with the simple telling of Jaworski’s personal journey (Joseph is the son of Leon […]
Discipleship is Our Focus
For as long as I can remember, most leaders consciously or unconsciously focused on receiving new members. Ask most pastors what size their church is, and most of them will tell you how many members they have. Low-commitment membership has been the emphasis for some time. In many cases people are hounded until they join […]
Eating Crow Over Mega Church
Bill Easum I may have to eat some serious crow. Several years ago I made the observation that we were entering a time when the rise of mega churches would begin to decline. I have to back off of that observation. The picture is shaping up quit differently than I thought it would. The mega […]