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    Unreached: Growing Churches In Working-Class And Deprived Areas

    By Tim Chester

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    When I became a Christian, I didn't have many Christian men to look up to. There were few who could show me what a council-estate Christian looked like.' Duncan Forbes
    Think of the thriving evangelical churches in your area, and the chances are that they will be in the nice areas of town and their leaders will be middle class.
    Unreached is about reaching deprived, urban, working-class areas, often estates or housing schemes. It offers us the combined experience of the Reaching the Unreached working group www.reachingtheunreached.org.uk, an informal network of Christian leaders from different parts of the UK.
    This book doesn't claim to offer the final word, but it presents us with a vision of what can be done. We pray that it will start a vital process in all our hearts and minds.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIVP
    Release dateDec 17, 2012
    ISBN9781844748464
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    Unreached: Growing Churches In Working-Class And Deprived Areas
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    Tim Chester

    Dr Tim Chester is a pastor of Grace Church in Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire, UK (www.thecrowdedhouse.org/boroughbridge). He has previously been Research and Policy Director for Tearfund UK and an adjunct lecturer in both Reformed spirituality and missiology. He speaks at conferences (including Keswick, where he is a trustee) and is the author of over 40 books, including Mission Matters and Sent (IVP). He is married with two grown-up daughters.

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      A book about the gospel in working class and deprived communities. I would say it is aimed primarily at those from middle class backgrounds since it starts with a description of the ways in which those communities differ. There is a call to culturally appropriate evangelism and discipleship within communities; what precisely does indigenous church look like in a council estate/deprived inner city/mining town/etc? The book highlights the bias towards middle class characteristics when selecting for leadership roles, but it is a little ironic that the book itself is aimed at encouraging just such leaders and pioneers to work in these areas rather than home-grown leadership. There is a chapter at the end on non-bookish ways of learning, helpfully pointing out that the gospel should be Word centred, not necessarily book centred, and certainly not an English comprehension exercise. As a book person, from a basically middle class background, it's good to have some of these differences spelled out for me in a way that I can understand.