The Book I Wish I Wrote: “Go Big or Go Home!”

Many of the folks I work with at Park kid me about my life motto — “Go Big or Go Home”, which I have claimed as my own for more than twenty years (and I see Chevy has ripped off from me last year). However, I just came across a book that summarizes my motto and is related to church planting and church growth — maybe I will have to get it and see what it says……..

Here’s the publishers take:

Bill Easum and Bil Cornelius are two strikingly different, yet surprisingly similar pastors. Bill Easum was a uniquely successful pastor for 35 years and is one of the most highly respected church consultants and Christian futurists in North America. As the Vice-President of Easum, Bandy & Associates (www.easumbandy.com), his many books, seminars, and other resources have, and continue to, guide thousands of Christian leaders for ancient ministry in the contemporary world. Bil Cornelius is founding and senior pastor of Bay Area Fellowship in Corpus Christi, one of Outreach Magazine’s 100 fastest growing churches in America. In just eight years, Bay Area Fellowship has grown to over 4500 people a weekend in attendance, mostly from reaching the unchurched of the next generation.

One undertook to revitalize a moribund mainline church; the other, to plant a new nondenominational congregation. Both have experienced substantial, even explosive, growth in congregational mission and membership. Along the way, they learned some important lessons, such as the centrality of strong pastoral leadership, the need for an unhesitant pursuit of excellence in all areas of the church’s ministry, and the requirement that you picture an audacious vision for your church and live into that vision. Regardless of the current size of your church, you will find here inspiring, ready-to-implement ideas to help your church go BIG.