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Unreached: Growing Churches in Working-Class and Deprived Areas

Unreached: Growing Churches in Working-Class and Deprived Areas

Chester, Tim

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ISBN10: 1844746038
ISBN13: 9781844746033
Publisher: IVP
Published: Oct 19 2012
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

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.

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