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The Church Growth Handbook

By: William M. Easum

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Here are 20 tested church-growth strategies used with dynamic success by William M. Easum and other church leaders across the country, Church Growth Handbook also provides diagnostic tools and step-by-step guidelines for follow-through." -- Back cover

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Ministry in Hard Times

By: William M. Easum

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Ministry in Hard Times

By: William M. Easum

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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1426708424

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Ministry in Hard Times

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By: William M. Easum

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Go Big

Lead Your Church to Explosive Growth

By: William M. Easum,Bill Easum,Bil Cornelius

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Go Big

Lead Your Church to Explosive Growth

By: William M. Easum,Bill Easum,Bil Cornelius

Two influential church leaders describe the prayers, practices, and partnerships that led to explosive growth in their congregations.

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Abingdon Press

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Sacred Cows Make Gourmet Burgers

Ministry Anytime, Anywhere, by Anybody

By: William M. Easum,Bill Easum

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Sacred Cows Make Gourmet Burgers

Ministry Anytime, Anywhere, by Anybody

By: William M. Easum,Bill Easum

Read this book if you are ready to let your ministry spin out of control. Then hang on, for wonderful changes are about to happen to your congregation. --Charles Ann, Church Growth, Inc.

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Abingdon Press

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0687005639

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A Second Resurrection

Leading Your Congregation to New Life

By: Bill Easum,William M. Easum

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A Second Resurrection

Leading Your Congregation to New Life

By: Bill Easum,William M. Easum

Shows how, following guidance of the Holy Spirit, leaders can bring spiritually dead congregations back to new life and mission.

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Abingdon Press

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0687646537

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Preaching for Church Transformation

By: William M. Easum,Bill Easum

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Preaching for Church Transformation

By: William M. Easum,Bill Easum

Shows preachers how to use their time behind the pulpit to reshape their congregations for mission and growth

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Abingdon Press

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The Church Growth Handbook

By: William M. Easum

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The Church Growth Handbook

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A Second Resurrection

Leading Your Congregation to New Life

By: Bill Easum,William M. Easum

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Leading Your Congregation to New Life

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Shows how, following guidance of the Holy Spirit, leaders can bring spiritually dead congregations back to new life and mission.

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Under the Radar

Learning from Risk-taking Churches

By: William M. Easum,William Tenny-Brittian

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Under the Radar

Learning from Risk-taking Churches

By: William M. Easum,William Tenny-Brittian

A tour of the nontraditional churches whose ministries are transforming the face of Christianity in North America. In recent years a huge crack has opened up between established, traditional churches and an emerging group of emerging congregations that are identifying the spiritual longings of contemporary culture and are willing to go far out on the limb to address those longings. These congregations, most of which fly under the radar of the established church, are recreating the religious landscape of North America. Those of us who don't know about them soon will. All leaders of Christian congregations would do well to listen to their distinctive witness and learn from it.

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0687493730

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Ten Most Common Mistakes Made by New Church Starts

By: James Griffith,William M Easum

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Ten Most Common Mistakes Made by New Church Starts

By: James Griffith,William M Easum

Jim Griffith and Bill Easum draw from decades of personal experience in planting new churches and consulting with supervisors and planters in new church starts. They have condensed their vast experiences down to ten points that account for the great majority of failures among church planters. For each point, the authors provide examples of the particular mistake and ways to avoid it. They speak in special sections to coaches and supervisors, showing them how to work with church planters to avoid the mistakes. The ten mistakes point in most cases to plans made on the basis of past experiences or unrealistic models that do not fit either the particular church planter or the mission field where the church is planned. the church planter must take the initiative to do God's work as directed by the Holy Spirit, not copy a religious superstar's methods or approach the works as defined by outside sources.

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Chalice Press

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0827236573

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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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Go Big with Small Groups

Eleven Steps to an Explosive Small Group Ministry

By: William M. Easum,John Atkinson

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Go Big with Small Groups

Eleven Steps to an Explosive Small Group Ministry

By: William M. Easum,John Atkinson

This book is for leaders who want to know the nuts and bolts of starting or growing a life changing small group ministry from the ground floor.

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Abingdon Press

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0687491355

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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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The McDonaldization of the Church

Consumer Culture and the Church's Future

By: John William Drane

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The McDonaldization of the Church

Consumer Culture and the Church's Future

By: John William Drane

A theology which comes pre-packaged, and in which there are no loose ends, is not true to life nor can it adequately reflect the richness of the Gospel." Why are churches struggling to maintain credibility in a culture in which there are more spiritual seekers than at any time in living memory? John Drane believes that churches have become stereotyped structures, offering uninventive formulaic worship to a dwindling minority. But there are exciting opportunities for growth, he argues, if only churches will rediscover their own creativity and flexibility. If only they will offer something more nourishing for post-modern spiritual appetites than the equivalent of fast food.

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Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.

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1573123749

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Growing Spiritual Redwoods

By: William M. Easum,Thomas G. Bandy

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Growing Spiritual Redwoods

By: William M. Easum,Thomas G. Bandy

Growing Spiritual Redwoods" is an effort to help church leaders answer the kinds of questions that confront congregations and Christians in this era of rapid and uncertain change. William M. Easum and Thomas Bandy argue that the congregations to whom the term "spiritual redwoods" can be applied are grown slowly, becoming vigorous centers of witness and mission.

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The Complete Ministry Audit

By: William M. Easum,Robert Brydia

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The Complete Ministry Audit

By: William M. Easum,Robert Brydia

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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

Effective Church series.

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Under the Radar

Learning from Risk-taking Churches

By: William M. Easum,William Tenny-Brittian

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Learning from Risk-taking Churches

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Beyond the Box

Innovative Churches That Work

By: William M. Easum,Dave Travis

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Beyond the Box

Innovative Churches That Work

By: William M. Easum,Dave Travis

Revolutionize your ministry! Beyond the Box evaluates what's working in emerging churches and helps leaders discover new ideas for their ministry. When it comes to church leadership, the leaders in this book aren't thinking inside, outside, or around the box--they're beyond it! Successful church consultants Bill Easum and Dave Travis show you radical church ministries that work, demonstrating how your church can grow beyond conventional methods. Gear up and bring people in your community to the faith of Jesus!

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Beyond the Box

Innovative Churches That Work

By: William M. Easum,Dave Travis

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Innovative Churches That Work

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Dancing with Dinosaurs

Ministry in a Hostile and Hurting World

By: William M. Easum

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Dancing with Dinosaurs

Ministry in a Hostile and Hurting World

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William Easum argues that a radical shift in culture makes it necessary for the church to change the way it proclaims the gospel, accounting for the anti-Christian climate in which we live while maintaining the and integrity of the Christian message.

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0687316790

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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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Introduction to Real Analysis

An Educational Approach

By: William C. Bauldry

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Introduction to Real Analysis

An Educational Approach

By: William C. Bauldry

An accessible introduction to real analysis and its connectionto elementary calculus Bridging the gap between the development and history of realanalysis, Introduction to Real Analysis: An EducationalApproach presents a comprehensive introduction to real analysiswhile also offering a survey of the field. With its balance ofhistorical background, key calculus methods, and hands-onapplications, this book provides readers with a solid foundationand fundamental understanding of real analysis. The book begins with an outline of basic calculus, including aclose examination of problems illustrating links and potentialdifficulties. Next, a fluid introduction to real analysis ispresented, guiding readers through the basic topology of realnumbers, limits, integration, and a series of functions in naturalprogression. The book moves on to analysis with more rigorousinvestigations, and the topology of the line is presented alongwith a discussion of limits and continuity that includes unusualexamples in order to direct readers' thinking beyond intuitivereasoning and on to more complex understanding. The dichotomy ofpointwise and uniform convergence is then addressed and is followedby differentiation and integration. Riemann-Stieltjes integrals andthe Lebesgue measure are also introduced to broaden the presentedperspective. The book concludes with a collection of advancedtopics that are connected to elementary calculus, such as modelingwith logistic functions, numerical quadrature, Fourier series, andspecial functions. Detailed appendices outline key definitions and theorems inelementary calculus and also present additional proofs, projects,and sets in real analysis. Each chapter references historicalsources on real analysis while also providing proof-orientedexercises and examples that facilitate the development ofcomputational skills. In addition, an extensive bibliographyprovides additional resources on the topic. Introduction to Real Analysis: An Educational Approach isan ideal book for upper- undergraduate and graduate-level realanalysis courses in the areas of mathematics and education. It isalso a valuable reference for educators in the field of appliedmathematics.

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