Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 9
Foreword 11
1 A New Kind of Big: Are You Ready to Dream Big Again? 13
2 Turning Our Hearts Inside Out: First Steps toward Becoming a Church of Influence 21
Cityscape-Community Transformation on the Horizon
3 Big Questions with Big Answers: Where Are We Going? 37
Cityscape-New York City: Lessons about Prayer from the Big Apple
4 Diagram of a Dream: Inventing the Wheel 51
Cityscape-A Boundaryless City: The Friendship Factor
5 The Epic Becomes Us: Education, Poverty, Family, Justice 71
6 The Human Chain: Developing Community Partnerships 83
Cityscape-Long Beach: The Church as a Catalyst
7 Transformation: It Works Both Ways 99
Cityscape-Little Rock: New Paradigms in Structure
8 Unity: But First We Experienced a Split 109
9 We Have Liftoff: The First Compassion in Action Weekend 119
Cityscape-Knoxville: Doing Our Homework
10 Orbit: Launching Christians into Channels of Influence 135
Cityscape-Atlanta: Big Starts Small
11 Measuring Success: Preparing the Thanksgiving Feast 151
12 Making Music: The Song Swells as We Partner with Others 163
Appendix 1 Community Outreach: How Perimeter Church Developed Its Community Outreach Department (2002) 173
Appendix 2 Unite! Creating an Ongoing Movement 177
Appendix 3 A Study of Duluth: Project Overview 181
Appendix 4 Community Research: A Relational, Asset-Based Approach 185
Notes 187