The Big Idea
Aligning the Ministries of Your Church through Creative Collaboration
- Church Leadership & Ministry
- Publisher: Zondervan Reflective (Zondervan)
- Published: 2007
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Publisher's Description
Community Christian Church embraced the Big Idea and everything changed. They decided to avoid the common mistake of bombarding people with so many “little ideas” that they suffered overload. They also recognized that leaders often don’t insist that the truth be lived out to accomplish Jesus’ mission. Why? Because people’s heads are swimming with too many little ideas, far more than they can ever apply. The Big Idea can help you creatively present one laser-focused theme each week to be discussed in families and small groups. The Big Idea shows how to engage in a process of creative collaboration that brings people together and maximizes missional impact. The Big Idea can energize a church staff and bring alignment and focus to many diverse church ministries. This book shows how the Big Idea has helped Community Christian Church better accomplish the Jesus mission and reach thousands of people in nine locations and launch a church planting network with partner churches across the country. This book is part of the Leadership Network Innovation Series.
Endorsements (6)
“I finished this book with an emotion I have rarely felt as a reader and reviewer: regret that it was not longer. The Big Idea shows how to do little large, and with mega impact. The authors deserve a prize for giving their readers a maximum return on a minimum investment of time and money. I predict (and hope for) many more Big Ideas. I’ll be recommending this book to so many people that I’ll be doing my part contributing to their church’s “fun fund.”
“The Big Idea is the best book for church leaders I’ve read in a long time. It stretched my mind while giving me a step-by-step ministry-altering application. Every ministry leader and church planter needs to read this book.”
“The Big Idea is a book you need to read. Whether you adopt all of its ideas or just a few, it will bring increased focus, clarity, and life change to your ministry. For nearly twenty years, my own church has benefited immeasurably from applying just one aspect of their vision (tying our small group curriculum to the weekend message). The team at Community Christian and the NewThing Network give us a model that takes church-wide ministry focus to new levels of innovation and collaboration.”
“The Big Idea resonates with me to the point of conviction. A challenge to pastors and teachers to quit creating “pew potatoes” by bombarding families and communities in any given week with multiple messages they don’t have time to put into action on their journeys as Christ followers. The Big Idea offers a start in fulfilling what James desires for us — not merely to listen to the Word, and so deceive ourselves, but to do what it says.”
“Dave Ferguson is a change agent. Every time I hear what he says or read what he writes, it challenges the way I think. The Big Idea is an approach to preaching that is as ancient as the parables of Christ, but it will revolutionize the next generation of preachers.”
“The Big Idea is huge. Big impact. Big insights. Big tools. Big practical learnings. Th e way forward for growing churches to drive home God’s truth into all of their attenders each week to grow them stronger in the faith. It’s big, fresh, and told in a winsome way by one of America’s great young leaders, Dave Ferguson. I always learn when I hang around Dave and the team at Community Christian. I encourage you to do the same through The Big Idea.”
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