I suppose you could call this a bit of a book review. I recently read the Big Idea by Dave and Jon Ferguson and Eric Bramlett. The book was one of those books that as you're reading it the creative juices get flowing. The creativity was contagious and I loved that.
Basic Idea
The basic concept of the Big Idea is that we are overstimulated already, why do churches contribute to this? Our message, the most important message, is getting lost in the fog of the hundreds of ideas that we set forth on any given weekend. We give announcements that are unrelated to the message which is unrelated to the music which is unrelated to the kids learning and so on. We send out a million little ideas. The big question is, what if we gave everyone one big idea each week that they could live out in their life and focus on for growth. Would we actually enhance growth by providing them with less stuff to think about.
I'm pretty interested in the idea of the Big Idea. It makes sense. It seems like it would be tough to take a church from not being a Big Idea church to being a Big Idea church (although the book describes a few different depths of commitment).
Ultimately the thing that I've been most impressed with from the guys at CCC is their heart for the reproducing church. I'll be writing about that more in the future, but for now, the Big Idea = recommended.
Monday, March 03, 2008
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Reproducing the mission of Jesus Christ
Thanks for stopping by. The goal of this page, and anything I'm involved in really, is to create the motive and opportunity for people to pursue the Jesus mission with everything they have inside of them. Beyond head knowledge of Jesus, we need to be people who are consistently helping people find their way back to God and apprenticing others to do the same. So... make it hap'n cap'n.
Writing and updates from Matt Larson, lead pastor of Anthem Church in Thousand Oaks, Ca.
