The Rabbit and the Elephant: Why Small Is the New Big for Today's Church

If you put two elephants in a room together and close the door, in 22 months you may get one baby elephant. But two rabbits together for the same amount of time will result in thousands of baby rabbits! In The Rabbit and the Elephant, “micro church” planters Tony and Felicity Dale use the “rabbit” illustration to show the pace at which the Christian faith can (and should) be growing—through evangelism that is explosive and transformational. The Rabbit and the Elephant contains the key to 21st century evangelism—taking the gospel to where the pain and the people are.
Features:

• Documents how “church” across the world is changing from being event-based to life and relationship-based.
• Shows how small and simple churches can multiply rapidly.
• Shows how to incorporate spiritual growth and outreach into every aspect of our lives.
• Includes relevant research on churchgoing habits and impact gathered by the Barna Group.

If you put two elephants in a room together and close the door, in three years you may have one baby elephant. But when you put two rabbits together for the same amount of time. . . .

Using this simple analogy, church planters Tony and Felicity Dale and acclaimed researcher George Barna bring a big message to God's church. How could we change the world if our Christian faith began multiplying at a rapid pacethrough a way of life that is explosive and transformational? It happened once before, in the early days of the church; what will it take to bring us to that point of urgency and determination again?

The Rabbit and the Elephant offerskeys to twenty-first-century evangelism: leveraging the power of the smalland taking the gospel to where the pain is and where the people are. And as God uses us to channel Jesus' love into a hurting, desperate world, we'll see his church grow beyond anything we could have imagined.