Description:
By Bill Easum - Bill introduces people to what the author calls the Crack in History and the resulting need for new wine skins.  It focuses on the kind of leader needed in such times, how the early churches functioned, the demise of the program based church, a reformation in worship, the end of the Sunday church, and the essentials of paradigm churches.

Table of Contents:
Standing on the Threshold; Bursting Wineskins and Munching Sheep; Caught in a Crack of History; The Fringe People; Leading the Sheep Back to Pasture; The Demise of the Program-Based Church; A Reformation in Worship; Whatever Happened to the Sunday Church?; Three Essential Ingredients of Paradigm Communities

Author:
Bill Easum is the Vice President of Easum, Bandy and is one of the most highly respected church consultants and Christian futurists in North America. Bill has been a pioneer in the church growth movement, with 35 years of pastoral ministry in four churches and two denominations. During his 24 years at Colonial Hills Church in San Antonio, the church grew from 35 in worship to over 1,000, with 2,200 members. His record of evangelization and social justice ministries has been acknowledged by the Industrial Areas Foundation in New York as one of the finest records in North America. Bill is a graduate of Baylor University, B.A., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, M.D., and Perkins School of Theology, S.T.M. Bill and his wife Jan have one daughter, Caran. Bill's main vice is he loves to salt water fish and then let the fish go.

Reviews:
Good reading for pastors and laity alike.  Dancing with Dinosaurs hits the nail on the head on the subject of the problems that the Church is facing and will face in the near future. William Easum displays a clarity of thought and writing that would be more refreshing if the subject mater were less threatening. I found this work to be needed reading in order to, not just sound the alarm but to examine the nature of it as well.

Related Resources:
See also Sacred Cows Make Gourmet Burgers by Bill Easum for more on the Permission-Giving Church