Unreached: Growing Churches in Working-class and Deprived Areas - Brossura

Chester, Tim

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1844746038 ISBN 13: 9781844746033

Casa editrice: Inter-Varsity Press, 2012

Riassunto

Think of the thriving evangelical churches in your area. Chances are they will be in the 'nice' areas of town and their leaders will be middle class. Tim Chester once attended a lecture where the speaker showed a map of Sheffield. The council wards were coloured different shades, according to social indicators: educational achievement, household income, benefit recipients, social housing, criminal activity, and so on. Slide after slide showed that the east side of the city was the needy, socially deprived half, compared to the more prosperous west. Where are the churches? Counting all the various tribes of evangelicalism, the large churches are on the west side. The working-class and deprived areas of our cities are not being reached with the gospel. There are many exciting exceptions, but the pattern is clear. According to Mez McConnell from Niddrie Community Church in Edinburgh, of the fifty worst housing schemes in Scotland, half have no church, and most of the others only have a dying church. Very few have an evangelical witness. This book is about reaching deprived, urban, working-class areas, often estates or schemes. It offers us the combined experience of the Reaching the Unreached working group, an informal network of Christian leaders from different parts of the UK. This book doesn't claim to be the final word. But it presents us with a vision of what can be done. We pray that it will capture imaginations and start a vital process in our hearts and minds.

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Recensione

Tim Chester has done the church in the UK a great service. This is thoughtful analysis at its best, supplemented by some excellent practical suggestions and ideas for reaching a part of British community that is seriously underrepresented in the life of the national church. Tim's passion is to make sure that the under-represented are not the unreached --Stephen Gaukroger, Director of Clarion Trust International and former President of the Baptist Union

This book is the fruit of passionate engagement of local churches with struggling neighbourhoods across the UK. It offers flashes of penetrating insight and perception into the challenges and opportunities of ministry in our more deprived areas. --Frog Orr-Ewing, Rector of Latimer Minster and Chaplain and Missioner to the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics

Tim Chester has worked hard to show how the raw, uncut gospel must be applied in the 'unreached' people groups of once Christian nations. He writes from both ministry experience and a passion for the gospel. He is also wised-up about the missional challenges before us, bringing valuable practical insight and needed advice for the reader --Joel Virgo, Church Elder, Church of Christ the King, Brighton

L'autore

Tim Chester is a writer, Bible teacher and church planter. He is married to Helen and has two daughters.

He is pastor of 'The Crowded House' Sheffield and a leader of 'The Crowded House' church planting network.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Inter-Varsity Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1844746038
• ISBN 13: 9781844746033
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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