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The Big Idea: Focus the Message---Multiply the Impact Audiobook
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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.
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"This was a helpful and practice book for learning how to preach with a team. I am still trying to impliment it but it was excellent. "
— Daniel (5 out of 5 stars)
The Big Idea Listener Reviews
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" This was a helpful and practice book for learning how to preach with a team. I am still trying to impliment it but it was excellent. "
— Daniel, 6/19/2013 -
" One of the simplest biblical tools I came to know, and at the same time one of the best creative method to build alignment in a church or church network. Well put and explained with a practical twist at every page. Love it and use it "
— Juan, 8/17/2012 -
" Fantastic concepts. Helps me re-think what i am saying and is it a part of the big idea. "
— Guy, 5/22/2012 -
" Just remember, this is VERY prescriptive... use the ideas that drive the "Big Idea"; the steps and or results may look nothing like what this church does... "
— Alex, 1/19/2012 -
" A worth-while read. Lots of valuable nuggets of information among the overall strategy of having a "Big Idea" church. "
— Cary, 6/8/2011 -
" Just remember, this is VERY prescriptive... use the ideas that drive the "Big Idea"; the steps and or results may look nothing like what this church does... "
— Alex, 4/9/2011 -
" Fantastic concepts. Helps me re-think what i am saying and is it a part of the big idea. "
— Guy, 2/20/2008
About the Authors
Dave Ferguson is founding and lead pastor of Chicago’s Community Christian Church, a multi-site missional community considered one of the most influential churches in America. He and his wife, Sue, have three children.
Jon Ferguson is the founding pastor of Community Christian Church, a teaching pastor for their Chicago network, and movement architect for NewThing, an international church-planting movement. He and his wife, Lisa, have two children. Jon and his brother Dave are the coauthors of three books on church leadership.
About Walter Dixon
Walter Dixon is a broadcast media veteran of more than twenty years’ experience with a background in theater and performing arts and voice work for commercials. After a career in public radio, he is now a full-time narrator with more than fifty audiobooks recorded in genres ranging from religion and politics to children’s stories.