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Winning On Purpose

How To Organize Congregations to Succeed in Their Mission

By: Dr. John E. Kaiser,Thomas G. Bandy,Bill Easum

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Winning On Purpose

How To Organize Congregations to Succeed in Their Mission

By: Dr. John E. Kaiser,Thomas G. Bandy,Bill Easum

Do you really want the mission to succeed? Are you prepared to live within clear boundaries? Are you ready to align yourself with a greater purpose? Do you have what it takes? Winning on Purpose offers leaders a way to organize congregations for success by creating structures that enable church life and health. As a comprehensive and powerful application of the biblical call to mission, Winning on Purpose sets forth the Accountable Leadership strategy. This model of leadership brings together standards for mission, boundaries, and accountability, and then shows how these standards come to life through the performance of four key players: the board, the pastor, the staff, and the congregation.To read a sample from the book click here

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Abingdon Press

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1426725361

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Execute Your Vision

The Practical Art of Ministry Leadership

By: Bill Easum,Scott Musselman

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Execute Your Vision

The Practical Art of Ministry Leadership

By: Bill Easum,Scott Musselman

Dreams and visions are amazing gifts from God. They are at the heart of God’s plan for our lives. Anyone can have an idea, but not everyone will experience that vision come to fruition. This book explores how to turn visions into reality in a fast-moving world that is changing at an exponential rate. A lot of books have been written the past few decades on how to lead in a rapidly changing world. So why should you read another one? That question deserves an answer. This book focuses on the obstacles that keep most leaders from turning their visions into reality. In consulting with over 700 churches in the past 25 years, one problem clearly stands out above all the rest. Pastors find it hard to execute a vision. Ideas aren’t hard to come by; making them happen is another thing altogether. This book will note how the Church missed out on prime opportunities during the middle of the 20th century in the United States when our culture went through a significant transition. Pastors, especially those who are younger, would do well to learn from these past lessons and apply that to a similar moment of transition in our contemporary society. As you read, you will find Reflection Points. They will help the you apply the concepts to your situation.

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Abingdon Press

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1501819003

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A Second Resurrection

Leading Your Congregation to New Life

By: Bill Easum

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A Second Resurrection

Leading Your Congregation to New Life

By: Bill Easum

For many congregational and denominational leaders, the goal for churches experiencing declining worship attendance is to turn those congregations around. The “turnaround church” is one that has stagnated or is in decline. The old trends are reversed, new members are added, and everyone rejoices in this story of a congregation restored to health and vitality. But what if the metaphors of decline, stagnation, and loss of health just aren’t getting to the problem? What if the situation is much worse than what those ways of describing it imply? What if the congregation is spiritually dead? The only solution is resurrection. Churches that have lost their sense of mission, that exist only to provide fellowship for the “members of the club,” that expect their leaders to focus solely on ministering to the members’ personal spiritual needs; these churches have died to the purpose of the New Testament church, to make disciples of Jesus Christ. They cannot be turned around; they must come to life again. The key to that resurrection is leaders who are not afraid to diagnose the problem for what it really is, and who realize that resurrection is what being a Christian is about. The goal of this book is to guide the leaders of these churches through the painful, yet ultimately life-giving work of leading a church to new life in the Spirit. If you want to find new life for your church, read on . . .

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Abingdon Press

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1426728263

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Unfreezing Moves

Following Jesus Into the Mission Field

By: Bill Easum,William Easum

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Unfreezing Moves

Following Jesus Into the Mission Field

By: Bill Easum,William Easum

Prepares Christian congregations to fulfill their basic function - to make disciples who make disciples for Jesus Christ. This book is about helping "stuck" and "unstuck" churches either become unstuck or constantly improve their ministry of making disciples. This book is designed to help church leaders make profound changes in the way they do ministry or constantly practice methodological innovation/improvement to be effective in creating disciples churches.

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Abingdon Press

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1426729669

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Go BIG with Small Groups

Eleven Steps to an Explosive Small Group Ministry

By: Bill Easum,John Atkinson

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Go BIG with Small Groups

Eleven Steps to an Explosive Small Group Ministry

By: Bill Easum,John Atkinson

Most churches that begin small groups find that within a couple of years two things happen - the number of small groups has dwindled in size and few if any of them have birthed other small groups. So, the only way most churches keep small groups going is by reinventing them over and over, usually with the same people. The authors of this book know God has much more in store for these churches. Bill Easum and John Atkinson have both led congregations in which small group ministry proved crucial to the church’s growth. Both know the pitfalls that endanger all attempts to center a congregation’s life around small groups. More importantly, they understand how to make small groups growing, self-reproducing centers of Christian discipleship.

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Abingdon Press

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1426722656

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Preaching for Church Transformation

By: Bill Easum

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Preaching for Church Transformation

By: Bill Easum

Before he was one of the best-known church consultants in the country, Bill Easum served a lengthy pastorate in San Antonio, Texas. When he arrived at the church it was in serious decline, with the possibility of having to close its doors beginning to loom over it. By the time he left it was the most vibrant, fastest-growing congregation in its city and region. Shortly after he arrived, Easum preached a series of sermons on the book of Acts that challenged the congregation to become an authentic New Testament church. He called on parishioners to step out of their comfort zones, stop expecting their pastor to be a personal chaplain, and join together to reach their city with the message of Jesus. Preaching for Church Transformation provides updated versions of the sermons Easum preached as he issued this challenge to the congregation shortly after his arrival. Interspersed with the sermons is commentary telling the reader how to adapt them for her or his own situation. Anyone wanting to lead a congregation from the status quo to growth and faithful witness will find Preaching for Church Transformation an indispensable resource.

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Abingdon Press

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1426729871

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Ministry in Hard Times

By: Bill Easum,Bill Tenny-Brittian

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Ministry in Hard Times

By: Bill Easum,Bill Tenny-Brittian

In hard times, you can either panic, decline, or grow. Which do you choose to do? This is not a time to tweak your church budget. It is not a time to slash and burn it indiscriminately across the board. Nor is it the time to hunker down in the bunker and wait things out. Now is the time is exercise wisdom and to act strategically. In fact, it's a great time to be the church. People need us to live out our mission as radically as we can possibly imagine. This book will help you make wise decisions about how to weather the economic storm and emerge on the other side of it a much stronger congregation. It’s a simple book with a simple message: you don’t get to choose when you go through hard times, only how you respond to them.

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Abingdon Press

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1426726716

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How to Reach Baby Boomers

By: William M. Easum,Bill Easum

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How to Reach Baby Boomers

By: William M. Easum,Bill Easum

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0687179289

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Go BIG

Lead Your Church to Explosive Growth

By: Bil Cornelius,Bill Easum

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Go BIG

Lead Your Church to Explosive Growth

By: Bil Cornelius,Bill Easum

Bill Easum and Bil Cornelius are two strikingly different, yet surprisingly similar pastors. One undertook to revitalize a moribund mainline church; the other, to plant a new nondenominational congregation. Coming from different generations, their ministries took place under dissimilar circumstances. Yet both have experienced substantial, even explosive, growth in congregational mission and membership. Along the way they learned some important lessons, such as the centrality of strong pastoral leadership, the need for an unhesitating pursuit of excellence in all areas of the church's ministry, and the requirement that you picture an audacious vision for your church and live into that vision. Regardless of the current size of your church, you will find here inspiring, ready-to-implement ideas to help your church go BIG.

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Abingdon Press

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142671355X

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Sacred Cows Make Gourmet Burgers

Ministry Anytime, Anywhere, By Anyone

By: Bill Easum

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Sacred Cows Make Gourmet Burgers

Ministry Anytime, Anywhere, By Anyone

By: Bill Easum

This book shows how an atmosphere of permission-giving, which signals the end of leaders as enablers, can help church leaders transcend bureaucracy and enhance spiritual gifts rather than assign them. The 'sacred cows' of control and regulation can be devoured, as leaders and people are converted to a new style of ministry.

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Abingdon Press

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1426724322

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Effective Staffing for Vital Churches

The Essential Guide to Finding and Keeping the Right People

By: Bill Easum,Bill Tenny-Brittian

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Effective Staffing for Vital Churches

The Essential Guide to Finding and Keeping the Right People

By: Bill Easum,Bill Tenny-Brittian

Well-staffed churches grow. But how do churches staff for growth in these rapidly changing times when budgets are tight, mission opportunities abound, and there is a growing shortage of qualified pastors, staff members, and church leaders? Two veteran pastors and church growth consultants offer workable solutions that focus on the four core processes vital to church health and growth: bringing people to Christ and the church, retaining them, discipling them, and sending them back out into the world. They also show pastors how to navigate the leadership transitions they must make to become increasingly effective as the church grows. Pastors will learn how to be leaders who multiply leaders and develop a mission-minded staff that does the same. Foreward by Ed Stetzer.

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Baker Books

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1441240055

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Preaching for Church Transformation

By: Bill Easum

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Winning On Purpose

How To Organize Congregations to Succeed in Their Mission

By: Dr. John E. Kaiser,Thomas G. Bandy,Bill Easum

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How To Organize Congregations to Succeed in Their Mission

By: Dr. John E. Kaiser,Thomas G. Bandy,Bill Easum

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Sacred Cows Make Gourmet Burgers

Ministry Anytime, Anywhere, By Anyone

By: Bill Easum

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Ministry Anytime, Anywhere, By Anyone

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Go BIG with Small Groups

Eleven Steps to an Explosive Small Group Ministry

By: Bill Easum,John Atkinson

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Eleven Steps to an Explosive Small Group Ministry

By: Bill Easum,John Atkinson

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Ministry in Hard Times

By: Bill Easum,Bill Tenny-Brittian

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By: Bill Easum,Bill Tenny-Brittian

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A Second Resurrection

Leading Your Congregation to New Life

By: Bill Easum

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Leading Your Congregation to New Life

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Execute Your Vision

The Practical Art of Ministry Leadership

By: Bill Easum,Scott Musselman

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The Practical Art of Ministry Leadership

By: Bill Easum,Scott Musselman

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Go BIG

Lead Your Church to Explosive Growth

By: Bil Cornelius,Bill Easum

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Lead Your Church to Explosive Growth

By: Bil Cornelius,Bill Easum

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United States Assistance Policy in Africa

Exceptional Power

By: Shai Divon,Bill Derman

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United States Assistance Policy in Africa

Exceptional Power

By: Shai Divon,Bill Derman

From the end of WWII to the end of the Obama administration, development assistance in Africa has been viewed as an essential instrument of US foreign policy. Although many would characterise it as a form of aid aimed at enhancing the lives of those in the developing world, it can also be viewed as a tool for advancing US national security objectives. Using a theoretical framework based on 'power', United States Assistance Policy in Africa examines the American assistance discourse, its formation and justification in relation to historical contexts, and its operation on the African continent. Beginning with a problematisation of development as a concept that structures hierarchies between groups of people, the book highlights how cultural, political and economic conceptions influence the American assistance discourse. The book further highlights the relationship between American national security and its assistance policy in Africa during the Cold War, the post-Cold War, and the post-9/11 contexts. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Development Studies, Political Science and International Relations with particular interest in US foreign policy, USAID and/or African Studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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Unfreezing Moves

Following Jesus Into the Mission Field

By: Bill Easum,William Easum

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Following Jesus Into the Mission Field

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Sermons on the First Readings: Cycle A

By: John T. Ball,Bill Mosley,James L Killen JR

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Sermons on the First Readings: Cycle A

By: John T. Ball,Bill Mosley,James L Killen JR

Bring the Old Testament to life with this inspiring and thought-provoking collection of sermons for each Sunday and major celebration in the Church year. Based on the First Readings from Cycle A of the Revised Common Lectionary, these powerful messages by five exceptional preachers from diverse denominations explore the meaning of the Hebrew scriptures for today's Christian living. Abundant insights into vital current issues are woven together with powerful proclamation of timeless themes of justice and righteousness -- and these imaginative homilies are full of compelling examples of how a loving God uses us to further his divine plan. This essential resource is useful for: - Fresh homiletical approaches to the lectionary texts - Preaching illustrations - Understanding scripture passages - Adult study and discussion groups - Personal devotions and Bible study In this anthology, John T. Ball leads the reader from the biblical text into daily life while employing a wide array of theological and literary references. An exciting excursion into a thinking person's faith journey, Ball's sermons are a helpful primer for critically informed preachers and anyone who seeks to make sense of ancient truth in these perilous times. C. Joseph Sprague Bishop, Chicago Area United Methodist Church By weaving the biblical text together with appropriate stories and illustrations, Arley Fadness crafts messages that are engaging and compelling. Readers will find much useful material, not only for sermon preparation, but also for personal spiritual growth. Robert Dovenmuehler Pastor, St. John American Lutheran Church Sioux Falls, South Dakota

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0788023225

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The Nomadic Church

Growing Your Congregation Without Owning the Building

By: William M. Easum,Bill Easum,Pete Theodore

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The Nomadic Church

Growing Your Congregation Without Owning the Building

By: William M. Easum,Bill Easum,Pete Theodore

A guide to the opportunities and challenges facing churches that do not own their property, and what established churches can learn from them. Across the country, churches are forgoing purchase of land and construction of buildings, choosing instead to rent space and allocate their resources to mission and leadership development. These churches are faced with a number of challenges, such as putting up and tearing down equipment every time they meet, getting the word out--especially to visitors--on where the church will gather any given week, and negotiating for additional space. However, being nomadic provides the church with many important opportunities, including that it allows time to build the church as a community before building it with brick and mortar; it builds serious disciples by calling on members to sacrifice; and, it frees funds to be used on mission rather than mortgages. Writing for the leaders of portable congregations- well as those of more established churches who want to learn from such churches-Easum and Theodore have provided the definitive guide to ministry in the nomadic church. Bill Easum is a President and Senior Managing Partner in Easum, Bandy and Associates, a church consulting and nurturing firm. One of the most widely sought advisors on congregational health and vitality in North America, he has over 30 years of congregational experience, with approximately 25 years' experience as pastor. One of the most respected voices on emerging forms of ministry and congregational life, he is the author of several books, including Unfreezing Moves and Put on Your Own Oxygen Mask First, both published by Abingdon Press. Pete Theodore is Pastor of Teaching at Rolling Hills Community Church in Tualatin, Oregon.

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0687497000

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9780687497003

The Complete Ministry Audit

By: William M. Easum,Robert Brydia

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The Complete Ministry Audit

By: William M. Easum,Robert Brydia

The essential tool for gauging your congregation's health and potential for growth. Bill Easum's The Complete Minsitry Audit has long enabled congregations to understand what their particular character is, diagnose their problems and opportunities, and plot strategies to remedy problems and extend their mission into the community. Essentially a condensed version of the instrument Easum himself employs in a consultation, it uses congregational surveys and questionnaires to give church leaders the best tools they can get for plotting their congregation's course. This revised edition makes The Complete Ministry Audit even more user friendly, with updated questionaires, new guides to interpreting the data, and more comprehensive electronic tools on the enclosed CD-ROM. The survey section contains the surveys that you will use to prepare the audit. The surveys are as follows: Worship Survey, Staff Survey, Staff Readiness Survey, Staff Permission Giving Survey, Official Body Survey, Official Body Readiness Survey, and the Official Body Permission Giving Survey.

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0687497507

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Can We Save the Evangelical Church?

The Lion Has Roared

By: Bill Hull

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Can We Save the Evangelical Church?

The Lion Has Roared

By: Bill Hull

The author of The Disciple-Making Pastor offers readers a clarion call to renewal in America's churches, identifying each of seven problems facing the evangelical church, and providing the latest information on church growth, leadership training, strategic planning, and paradigms for "off-campus" ministeries and small-group communities.

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0800716892

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9780800716899

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