Be a Mentor and Be Mentored
The word “mentor” is defined as “a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.” Throughout my over 30 years of pastoral ministry, I have had many trusted teachers who have counseled me, encouraged me, corrected me and redirected when I had made some poor decisions. In similar fashion I have made it a point to avail […]
Why Don’t People Invite Their Friends?
It’s become very clear that church members aren’t inviting their friends (or anyone else) to join them for worship. A poll by the Barna Group revealed that 60 percent of people will not invite people to attend worship with them online (or Share or Like or Tag or even Check In). In the pre-COVID world, […]
Confession of Two Mainline Church Geeks
We’ve Got a Confession to Make. We’ve been mainline Christians most of our lives. We choose the mainline because of its theology. But over time the mainline Church has fallen into a free fall decline. And that pains us. We hate to see once great institutions dying. So we’re not going to just sit back […]
While Nero Fiddled …
… Rome burned. We all know that is not literal fact, but its imagery still reflects what is happening today to mainline Christianity. Too many of us are fiddling while our once relevant denominations are becoming irrelevance. We are constantly getting sidetracked from our main objective- making disciples who make disciples who change the world. […]
On Your Marks – Get Set –
From the Desk of Bill Easum: Our new book Dinosaurs to Rabbits: Turning Mainline Decline into a Multiplication Movement will be out in two weeks. This book may turn out to be our most important book to date as it offers the Mainline Church a productive way forward in advancing the Kingdom. As a special bonus, we […]
Winning Back the West
I love to say, “If you can see the harvest, you can take the risk.” The harvest is the vast number of people who live outside of the knowledge that God loves them. The risk is turning your church upside down and in-side-out to reach them. Every day Mainline Christianity becomes more marginalized and irrelevant. It’s time we changed […]