As the founding partner for The Effective Church Group and author of 19 books, Bill Easum has helped more than 1,000 churches worldwide. In the interview below, he talks about multiplication and what he, a church planting veteran, is learning from...
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“Here’s to the crazy ones…”
Those are the opening lines to what has become one of the most iconic Apple commercials of all time. While there are a lot of things about Steve Jobs I wouldn’t emulate, his obsession with being different helped him...
It’s not how many churches you plant, it’s how many of the churches you plant, plant churches that plant
Ralph Moore, pastor of Hope Chapel in Honolulu, is a 70-year-old, humble hippie who is planting the third Hope Chapel in Hawaii. Ralph is...
Around our first anniversary, my husband TJ and I spent some time together sharing our goals for the coming year. It wasn’t unlike New Year’s Resolutions. We talked about where we were in our jobs, and our finances, about some trips we...
For nine years I taught a course on evangelism at a small Christian college. There was an exercise I would do every year to illustrate to the students just how inwardly focused most churches are. I would divide the white board into two large columns...
One of the keys to having a real and long-lasting impact is developing the leaders around you. Effective leaders don’t just do ministry; they develop leaders. The challenge is how to do that, especially with limited resources of time and money.
How...
by Visioneering Studios
Over a decade ago, former Disney Imagineer Mel McGowan started calling into question the true meaning of the spaces we commonly call “church.” Since he knew environments can facilitate mission, the overwhelming emotive of...
The new FREE Becoming Five assessment looks at three different perspectives: past, present, and future. Each perspective is independently scored relative to the five levels of multiplication, and a unique three digit score or pattern is assigned (e....
Susan Wunderink works for Thrivent Financial & will be one of over 150 speakers at Exponential East 2016. Brooke Hempell is Vice-President of Research at Barna Group.
How much money should a church planter make? The answer is, more than they...
As I look back on the past nine years and all that has transpired in our lives as church planters, I am amazed at what God can do with a remnant of willing people. People who desire to be a part of something that is actually going to matter 100...
Was the Apostle Paul seeker sensitive?
I think so but not in the same sense as today’s churches labeled “seeker sensitive.” Today’s seeker sensitive churches are defined as being hyper-attuned to creating church experiences...