The Rabbit and the Elephant

 
Our new book, "The Rabbit and the Elephant," co-authored with George Barna comes out on June 1st.  It has been a two year labor-of-love to write it.  We are asking that if anyone is planning to buy it, they order from Amazon.com.  Here’s their link to the book: http://bit.ly/DFD3k  This will increase our Amazon sales rank and hopefully make it more likely that others will buy the book.

Here's Tyndale House Publisher's version of what the book is about:

Rabbits, Elephants and Simple Church

If you put two elephants in a room together with plenty of food and water, close the door, and come back in three years, if you’re lucky, you may have one baby elephant. But do the same thing with two rabbits and you’ll get thousands of baby rabbits.

In their new book, The Rabbit and the Elephant: Why Small is the New Big for Today’s Church, simple church planters Tony and Felicity Dale, with acclaimed researcher George Barna, use the rabbit illustration to show the pace at which the Christian faith can (and should) be growing—through a way of life that is explosive and transformational. Through observations supported by the Barna Group research, the Dales document how church all across the world is changing from being event-based to life and relationship-based.

The Rabbit and the Elephant explores the simple church phenomenon and the ideas and experiences behind its concept of every member ministry. You will learn how to incorporate spiritual growth and outreach into every aspect of your life, while discovering the key to 21st century evangelism.

Comments

[Derek Iannelli-Smith]

thanks for letting us know on simplechurch.com about the audio version with christianaudio. Just bought it... thank you

[Frank Doiron]

Sorry, I just ordered it from a book store.

[Jason Rigby]

Thanks so much for your encouragement!!! I really needed this book right now; in our transition from a very traditional church to a simple church with multiple expressions throughout our community. We were at 180 doing a traditional program driven Sunday show too now having 40 true Disciples of Jesus.

This book gave me hope and encouragement! By the way... it has been worth every hard step to see our church transition into a "loving one another and others" body

My review is on my blog here
http://northwestpastorjason.blogspot.com/2009/07/book-review-rabbit-and-elephant-why.html

[costa rica north pacific condos]

i like this part of the post:"f you put two elephants in a room together with plenty of food and water, close the door, and come back in three years, if you’re lucky, you may have one baby elephant." is very good

[Stuart Brunson]

How does a large UK church change to the model of simple church??
The current leadrership talk about change, but they stuck in the ways.

[ugg ultra tall]

U.S. very distinctive blog! Feel like straying into a beautiful new world! You do not mind if I introduce your blog to my students it