At the heart of this book lie two key ideas: First, you can't give what you don't have. It is imperative that pastors keep close to their call, close to their mission, and close to God. In other words, leaders must take care of themselves before they can do anything for anyone else. And second, the ministry of pastors is not to fulfill all the tasks of ministry themselves, but rather to equip others for their own ministry. This book is not for those who want "ministry as usual." Rather, it is for those who want to rediscover that primal, original moment with God that left them feeling as if they could change the world--or for those who want to discover that call for the first time. For such seekers, this book can serve as a guide along their journey.

Put on Your Own Oxygen Mask First: Rediscovering Ministry

Religion & Spirituality

Easum, Bill

Christian Books & Bibles

ABINGDON PRESS *

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.

Sacred Cows Make Gourmet Burgers: Ministry Anytime, Anywhere, By Anyone

History

World

Reason #5 for using The Complete Ministry Audit: You can save thousands of dollars by not having William Easum or one of his team come to your church for an on-site consultation (from page 4). Tested in over 500 congregations, this study guide will help a church conduct a self-study and a complete audit of their ministries. The worksheets are printed in the workbook and are also contained in spreadsheet files on a computer disk provided inside the back cover. Easum's survey includes difficult, decisively focused questions about congregational leadership by staff and officials as well as questions about laity, land-use, and youth.

The Complete Ministry Audit: How to Measure 20 Principles for Growth

Religious Studies

How to Reach Baby Boomers, Dancing With Dinosaurs and Church Growth Handbook (SET)

Prepares Christian congregations to fulfill their basic function - to make disciples who make a difference 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 in their churches.

Unfreezing Moves: Following Jesus into the Mission Field

Easum, William

Here are twenty tested church-growth strategies that have been implemented by church consultant William Easum with more than 4,000 church leaders across the United States and Canada. The Church Growth Handbook provides diagnostic tools, which now can be used with The Complete Ministry Audit, also by Easum.

The Church Growth Handbook

Accompanies book title "The Complete Ministry Audit" by William Easum. 01817X This disk is inserted in the back cover. Not sold separately.

Spreadsheet Disk For Complete Ministry Audit Software

Most Christians would agree that the purpose of the church is to lead people into active, committed discipleship to Jesus Christ. Yet if this is the case, shouldn t the goal of making disciples drive everything the church does? For example, shouldn t the primary job of staff members be to recruit and mentor the laity in fulfilling their own call to ministry, rather than the staff members performing the tasks of ministry themselves? Shouldn t the task of reaching out to those who have yet to answer Christ 's call to discipleship be more important than maintaining programs for those who already have? Thus, Easum opens the portal to the OtherSide, that place beyond the Christendom Era and its mechanistic, by-the-numbers approach to church life. Be prepared for a bumpy ride, with treasured assumptions, privileges, and traditions shattered along the way.

Leadership on the Other Side

Now churches can effectively attract and integrate members of the baby boom generation--whose needs are not being met by traditional congregations. This third book in Abingdon's Effective Church Series shows how to incorporate baby boomers--persons aged 26 to 46--in the life of the congregation. Easum proposes that baby boomers can be reached and brought into the Christian faith and its institutions only as pastors and leaders help them move from a life-style of self-fulfillment to one of self-denial for the causes related to the ministry of Jesus Christ. He offers appropriate leadership styles, programs, and preaching that will appeal to baby boomers and meet their specific needs. Throughout the book, Easum carefully forces decisions about the tensions that exist between entertainment and proclamation, content and application, mind and heart. (1991)

How to Reach Baby Boomers: (Effective Church Series)

Before long, many of our Christian congregations will be perceived as sentimental creatures who are studied primarily as skeletons in the halls of museums. The church is in danger of becoming a dinosaur, according to church consultant William Easum. We live in a secular or unchurched world, but the church continues to develop ministries as if the church were in charge of a churched society. Dancing with Dinosaurs will help pastors and church leaders to plant culturally relevant congregations, explore first-century Christian communities as the primary model for viable congregations, and challenge complacent, arrogant assumptions.

Dancing with Dinosaurs: Ministry in a Hostile & Hurting World

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