“What curriculum should my small group use?β More and more vital churches are answering that question by using sermon-based material.
Larry Osborne, pastor at North Coast Church in San Diego, has helped popularize this approach, which makes the weekend sermon the basis for the small group discussion the following week. Not simply a review of […]
By Bill Easum
2008 was a very bad year for the majority of people around the world.Β Savings and pensions cut in half. Jobs lost. And a world-wide lack of confidence in governments. From everything I see 2009 will be worse.Β We havenβt yet seen the end of layoffs, bailouts, rising unemployment β I could […]
The fact is, most church newsletters do little to nothing to help grow a church… in fact, many church newsletters we’ve reviewed may be a part of the reason why a church isn’t growing.
Here are a couple of do’s and don’ts to help you develop a newsletter that will at least aid your church […]
A lot of conversations and misunderstandings have arisen as a result of the Reveal study done by Willow Creek.Β Because the study can be so helpful I thought I would set the record straight.No, Willow is not abandoning its long standing concern for the seeker.Β No, Willow has not been a failure. No, Willow […]
In December, my new book on Evangelism will be released by Chalice Press. Hitchhiker’s Guide to Evangelism takes a peek at the “new” evangelism needed for reaching today’s world. Let’s face it, if the ways we do evangelism were really working, our churches would be filling up. But that’s clearly not the case. Indeed, […]
I recently completed teaching a college course on Evangelism In Your Context. I had students from all over (east of the Rockies) and a good time was had by all. The majority of the students were either pastors or staff members of churches and the sheer number of Ahas! was gratifying. Perhaps the most […]
Today I’ve spent all day … well, from 10:30 AM until 4:20 … training fifty-two participants the first half of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to Evangelism seminar. I’m exhausted (that’s a lot of time up in front doing a lot of the talking) and yet I’m too wound up to sleep. There’s something about watching […]
Thereβs more to public praying than just heeding some βthou shalt nots.β For example,Β thou shalt not use the words ‘Lord’ or ‘just’ as commas between long, run-on sentences: (βWe just pray, Lord, that you would just hear our prayers, Lord, and just touch the hearts and souls of the congregation, Lordβ¦β) and thou shalt […]
The Ministry Audit: Consultant Training I and II with Bill Easum.
Resource: The Church Growth Handbook and The Complete Ministry Audit, available from EBA or Abingdon Press. These seminars equip church leaders to apply The Complete Ministry Audit to any congregation. Consultant Training I and II are two of our most productive equipping models. Both […]
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