by Tony & Felicity Dale and George Barna

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Church planters Tony and Felicity Dale and acclaimed researcher George Barna bring a big message to God’s church. How might we change the world if our Christian faith began multiplying at a rapid pace—through 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? Small Is Big offers keys to 21st-century evangelism: leveraging the power of the small—and taking the gospel to where the people are and the pain is. 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."

This is essentially an updated, paperback version of The Rabbit and the Elephant, but contains two totally new chapters on what is happening with mega- and legacy churches too. Many of these larger churches are working with those of us in simple/organic church and using the principles of simple/organic churches to reach out to the communities around them.

Read an Excerpt including all of Chapter 1 (PDF)

Endorsements

God is shifting the church from church-as-we-know-it to church-as-God-wants-it.  Felicity and Tony Dale bring us a thrilling backstage account of how God is restoring divine order in his house. May the spiritual "rabbit plague" they describe here sweep through our post-man-made church world and invite all of us to join the King, Jesus, as he builds his church.
-Wolfgang Simson, author of The House Church Book, Houses that Change the World and The Starfish Manifesto

Tony and Felicity bring years of global leadership and experience in the simple church movement to this book. They are genuine pioneers of this movement in the West and have visionary insights to offer in this easy-to-read, practical, and big-hearted book. We are grateful for their ministry.
-Alan Hirsch, author of The Forgotten Ways, and co-author of The Faith of Leap, Untamed, reJesus, and The Shaping of Things to Come

In a time that is crucial, God sent a precious gift to our nation--Tony and Felicity Dale. There are few people I respect and love as much as I do these two. It is my privilege to call them friends and coworkers. Their experience is a prophetic voice to us, and this book gives wings to that voice.
-Neil Cole, author of Organic Church, Organic Leadership, Church 3.0, Journeys To Significance as well as Founder and Director of Church Multiplication Associates

Clear. Practical. Timely. The contents of this book are praiseworthy, but more impor- tantly the book springs from the lives of a couple who are implementers rather than theoreticians, people who are Kingdom-minded and humble in heart.
-Curits Sergeant, director of Global Strategies with E3 Partners

Tony and Felicity Dale are at the forefront of a revolution that is brewing in the body of Christ today. That revolution is marked by a growing number of Christians who are gathering outside the organized church and finding Christ in fresh ways in Christian community. This book will give readers a window into some of the exciting things that are marking this revolution. Among other things, you will discover that Jesus Christ can be profoundly known and expressed outside the typical structures of institutional Christianity in new and simpler forms of church life. Read this book and join a revolution that just might outstrip the Reformation!
-Frank Viola, author of Pagan Christianity

ISBN-13: 978-1-4143-3941-2
Published by Tyndale House (June 2011)
Paperback
288 pages