How to Reach Baby Boomers: (Effective Church Series) [Paperback]

Bill Easum (Author)

Book Description

Series: Effective Church Series | Publication Date: December 1991

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)

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About the Author

Bill Easum is President of 21st-Century Strategies, a church consulting and nurturing firm. One of the most widely sought advisers on congregational health and vitality in North America, he has over 30 years of congregational experience, with approximately 25 years' experience as a pastor. One of the most respected voices on emerging forms of ministry and congregational life, he is the author of several books, including Unfreezing Moves, Put On Your Own Oxygen Mask First, Go Big!, (with Bil Cornelius), and Ministry in Hard Times (with Bill Tenny-Brtiian), all published by Abingdon Press.

Product Details

• Paperback: 143 pages
• Publisher: Abingdon Press (December 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0687179289
• ISBN-13: 978-0687179282
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,189,503 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bill Easum has a thirty year track record of growing congregations in two denominations. His last church, which he pastored for twenty-four years, grew to the largest United Methodist Church in South Texas. The past twenty years, Bill has served as a consultant to congregations and denominations. In 1986 he founded 21st Century Strategies. Bill has personally worked in over 700 congregations, some of which are the largest in the nation, and has taught hundreds of thousands of leaders (client list http://easumbandy.com/services/consultations/our_list_of_clients/). Bill is the author of more than a dozen best selling books.