“Church planters under 30 whom I’m meeting don’t seem interested in planting churches that will become megachurches. Rather, they want reproducible small churches–which, incidentally, matches what’s happening in the business world.
Leadership guru Warren Bennis’ The Future of Leadership speaks of elephants and fleas: The elephants get all the attention, but the new ideas mostly come from fleas.”
– Eddie Gibbs (ht)
Amen and Amen. I know this rings true for us in De Soto. Even though we are barely a few months old, and average around 30 in attendance, we already are thinking of ways to, in the least partner, with a couple additional plants over the next year
so true.
It also reflects what’s happening in the urban development world.
Ppl are less interested in one-stop malls which offer everything and these days are going to the local, smaller, grassroots stores instead for their needs.