Elephants and Fleas

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, author of ChurchNext: Quantum Changes In How We Do Ministry)