Bill Easum has a 30-year track record of growing congregations in two denominations. His last church, which he pastored for 24 years, grew to become the largest United Methodist Church in South Texas. Bill is the recipient of the prestigious Donald McGavran award for outstanding church leadership. Over the past 20 years, Bill has served as a consultant to congregations and denominations. He is the author of numerous best-selling books such as Church Growth Handbook, How to Reach Baby Boomers, Dancing With Dinosaurs, Sacred Cows Make Gourmet Burgers, Beyond the Box and many more. His latest book is Effective Staffing for Vital Churches: The Essential Guide to Finding and Keeping the Right People.
Articles
October 17, 2016
Is Your Scorecard Advancing Your Kingdom or God’s?
Part of becoming a Level 5 multiplying church is changing your scorecard of success and developing new values that advance God’s Kingdom, not your own....
August 17, 2016
The Heart of a Level 5 Church: Radical Discipleship
The one ingredient a Level 5 church cannot do without is radical discipleship. Raising up radical disciples is the underbelly of the exponential church planting movement....
April 13, 2016
Give the Gospel a Chance
As a result of my time at a think tank in Atlanta, I spent some time listening to the message of several pastors who are...
March 24, 2016
A New Form of Church
Recently, I had the privilege of meeting with a handful of some of the most innovative church leaders in the U.S. to discuss a new...
March 8, 2016
A New Movement Emerging in the West
There’s a new movement underfoot in the West that just might stem the tide of Western Christianity’s decline. I can tell you that it will...
March 1, 2016
Church Planting Isn’t the Goal
Wayne Cordeiro is known for effectively planting hundreds of churches over a long period of years, but in a recent interview with me he said,...
February 23, 2016
Four Lessons from an Interview with Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson is the Senior Pastor of One Church*, a multi-site congregation in Orlando, Florida. For several years he has been planting one church a year,...
February 16, 2016
Commitment to Multiplication: An Interview with Brian Bolt
In a span of ten years, Brian Bolt has gone from starting one Recovery Home to planting more than 50 churches with 30 plants scheduled...
February 9, 2016
A New Scorecard for Churches in Any Age
Scorecards are valuable in any game because they tell you whether or not you’re winning. If it is important to know if you’re winning in...
February 2, 2016
A Big, Hairy Audacious Goal
By “radical,” we mean becoming more and more like Jesus in every way. That’s a big, hairy, audacious goal for sure. But it is at...
January 28, 2016
Learning from Becoming a Level Five Multiplying Church
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...
January 26, 2016
Seven Lessons from an Interview with Ralph Moore
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...
December 10, 2015
Ripples of Multiplication
Bill Easum is passionate about church multiplication, loves serving church planting leaders, and is a long-time friend of Exponential. Bill will be one of over...
