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1.      After a lengthy discussion on contemporary worship, a woman in her seventies approached me with this question;  "Why can’t these young people learn to like my music?"  I responded; "Why can’t you learn to like their music?" She thought for a moment and then made a remarkably insightful reply. "The answer is the same, […]

Like everything else in today’s world, the way spiritual redwood churches are staffing themselves is rapidly changing. Church leaders in declining churches are finding these changes extremely hard to comprehend, much less attempt. This inability to comprehend and make the necessary changes is a critical flaw in most declining churches. I think it is fair […]

By Bill Easum Being stuck in a hotel with the flu gives one time to ask dumb questions. With nothing to do but sneeze and cough and watch TV, I turned to the Yankees and Red Sox game.  While watching the game, the question popped into my head- why so much spitting?  That afternoon, still […]

When most people hear the word “missionary” they think of someone going off to a foreign country. That used to the case. But no more. Today, in the U.S., we are called to be “back yard missionaries” to our networks. Today, only 30 percent of the missionaries being sent out in the world are from the […]

By Bill Easum Commitment to organized religion is now declining at the same time the public passionately pursues personal, spiritual journeys. How ironic that established/mainline denominations are shrinking during one of the most intensely spiritual periods in North American history. Aside from the spiritual malaise of many churches, two cultural changes lie behind this decline. […]