Introduction: get ready for a ride -- The only difference is the zeroes -- A wild and crazy God -- Structuring your church for growth -- It's time to lead, pastor! -- Double your vision -- Preparing to break the growth barriers -- The growth barriers -- Staffing the church for explosive growth -- Saved to serve -- Make a big "ask" of yourself -- Handling problem people -- Positioning ourselves for explosive growth.

Bill Easum and Bil Cornelius are two strikingly different, yet surprisingly similar pastors. One undertook to revitalize a moribund mainline church; the other, to plant a new nondenominational congregation. Coming from different generations, their ministries took place under dissimilar circumstances. Yet 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, a.

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