By Bill Easum – Bill challenges the command and control model of organization and leadership in the dying established and mainline congregations and offers a new model of leadership called permission giving. Focusing on the Body of Christ as the primary metaphor, it explores the quantum age, spiritual gifts, permission-giving leaders and networks and offers a step by step plan for the transformation of the church from command and control to permission giving. Sacred Cows was chosen as one of the top ten books of 1996 by the Journal for the Academy of Parish Clergy. Some of the graphics are not included in the download version.

Table of Contents: The Sacred Cow; The Quantum Age; The Controllers; The Connection and Foundation; Permission-Giving Churches; Discovering Our Place In God’s World; Permission-Giving Leaders; Permission-Giving Networks; Self-Organizing Ministry Teams; The Steering Team; Transformation; Appendix