The standard of most books and I believe more so in the ministry, is you only need to read half of the book and you have all the information you need! The Big Idea isn't that case. Every chapter bought some more understand of the concept of the Big Idea and the chapters on planning are what I totally ate up.
The whole concept of the book is your typical family attends a typical church and leaves with over 40 ideas to apply to their lives. The adults get a 4 bullet message; four ideas, they have small group with more ideas, their kids have bible study more ideas, got youth even more. Their concept is some what of a 40 Days kind of deal, where everyone from adults to preschools all learn the same one big idea. I understand the concept. Don't know if I'm sold on it for every age group, love the idea for adults.
It's one of those books I hung on every chapter wanting to learn something new, but here are just a few of my highlights:
- "If you've been calling yourself a Christian, you should stop. Maybe not what you were expecting? It is exactly what you and the church need - forget ever being a Christian again." "Why? Because the last thing the mission of Jesus Christ needs is more Christians."
- The one year plan, having the service order nine weeks our and the service totally planned, even the message with two weeks to spare. Now that allows for the creative process to reach it's full potential. How many times have you come up with a great idea for this weeks message series and not have enough time in a week to pull it off. Loving that idea!
- The idea of staff not having their own offices and everyone being in community space I thought was a cool idea and I would love to see it in action. They do it so everyone is doing life together and everyone is in everyones business.
- My heart is built for team ministry and my prayer is for God to bring that amazing team to this new church plant. Totally agreed with their reason behind it as well.
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