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Church in Hard Places
How the Local Church Brings Life to the Poor and Needy
Publication
- Publisher
- Crossway
- Date published
- 2016
The Physical Book
- Binding
- Paperback
- Total pages
- 210 pages
- ISBN-13
- 9781433549045
- LCCN
- 2015018978
Reference
- Notes
- McConnell writes from Niddrie, one of Edinburgh's poorest housing schemes, and the argument is deliberately against the grain of most poverty ministry: that what the very poor need is an ordinary local church with membership and discipline, not a parachurch programme. Published in the 9Marks line, though not in the Building Healthy Churches set. Compare Corbett and Fikkert's When Helping Hurts, also held here.
Contents
- Part 1: The Gospel in Hard Places
- 1. What Is Poverty?
- 2. What Gospel Do They Need?
- 3. Does Doctrine Matter There?
- Part 2: The Church in Hard Places
- 4. The Parachurch Problem
- 5. The Local Church Solution
- 6. The Work of Evangelism
- 7. The Role of Preaching
- 8. The Importance of Membership and Discipline
- Part 3: The Work in Hard Places
- 9. Prepare Yourself
- 10. Prepare the Work
- 11. Prepare Your Leaders
- 12. Prepare for Mercy Ministry?
- Part 4: The Cost of Hard Places
- 13. Count the Cost... and Reward