Description:
By Bill Easum - 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, and mind and heart.

Table of Contents:
Building Bridges to the Baby Boomers; Future-Active; Leadership; Organizing for Ministry; Taking Aim at the Baby Boomer; Feeding the Baby Boomer; Giving is Living; The Sunday Morning Experience; A Final Word; Appendix

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:
Bill Easum looks over the horizon into every effective congregation's tomorrow- seeing leadership principles that others cannot yet identify and stating what others cannot yet understand. - Herb Miller, Founder of Net Results, Inc., church consultant.

Related Resources:
Also purchase workbooks: L.I.F.E Groups to learn more about small groups; Discovering Our Place in God's World and Spiritual Gifts: God's Gift to Us and the Body of Christ; Worship For People of the Heart to learn more about contemporary worship.