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MAY
2013
The UK Church & The Poor: How Have We Fallen So Far & What Can Be Done About It? (II)?
Yesterday, we looked at the problem of lack of churches and indigenous leadership training in council estates and housing schemes across the UK. Today, and for the next few days, I would like to offer some possible solutions to tackle the issues. We need to give our younger converts m
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MAY
2013
The UK Church & The Poor: How Have We Fallen So Far & What Can Be Done About It (I)?
Since the mid 1990s, the demographic of UK has shifted from the 1950s/60s pyramid, with the bottom layer being the working poor, to a diamond. The thickest middle layer includes the aspirant middle-class that has grown from the manual labouring working class; there is a narrower layer
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MAY
2013
Why Gods Hatred Of Sinners Gives Us The Freedom To Love Them
‘Totally depraved sinners, who had violated the honour and glory of God and had committed an infinite fault, could only hope for one way by which the honour and dignity of God could be restored – an infinite sacrifice. To provide the sacrifice, God had to become man and endure the pun
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MAY
2013
Why American Church Planters In Scotland Need Not Be The End Of The World.
I have recently returned from a 2 week trip to the USA, in an effort to drum up support for the work of 20schemes. In a packed schedule I visited Immanuel Baptist Church in Sacramento, pastored by Robert Briggs, one of the members of our advisory board. In partnership with 9Marks, we
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MAY
2013
How Should We Disciple Former Drug Addicts?
This article was originally written by Andy Constable, the Pastoral Assistant at Niddrie Community Church, Edinburgh. We live in a community that has been heavily damaged by drugs. Most of the people that we work with have a steady diet of prescribed as well as street (unprescribed) d
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MAY
2013
The Silliness of Social Engineering
An article on the BBC website caught my eye last year. “London’s New Housing Loses The “Dirty Word” Apparently new homes being built in London are now being renamed, ‘neighbourhoods’ instead of ‘estates’ because the powers that be feel that the latter has a pejorative association. Ind
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MAY
2013
The Meaning Of Marriage
The first thing I would say about any book on marriage is that I feel a sense of conviction and belief about what is being written when I know the couple are mature and have been in “the fight” for many decades. It’s why I body swerved a certain Mark Driscoll’s book in favour of this.
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MAY
2013
How Do I know If I Could I Plant A Church In A Housing Scheme?
Because church planting seems to be “in” at the moment, there seems to be an endless supply of young men (and old) putting themselves forward as “planters”. Interestingly, very few feel “called” to housing schemes/council estates (although a few of us in the UK are seeing a slow but s
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MAY
2013
Just How Unreached Is Edinburgh With The Gospel of Jesus Christ?
Why are you planting churches in Scotland? It’s a Christian country isn’t it? This map is the result of a survey taken by a city centre church in 2007. The red areas indicates where there is very little and/or no gospel witness. If we took into account every denomination i
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APR
2013
Why The Doctrine Of Atonement Matters To The Poor
Without the cross of Jesus Christ there is no gospel. There simply is no good news without the cross. Indeed, any attempt to preach the gospel, minus the cross, is to offer people a placebo rather than the very medicine they require. (Alistair Begg) There can be a misapprehension in s
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Building healthy gospel centered churches for Scotland’s poorest communities
Our long term desire is to see Scotland’s housing schemes transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ through the planting of gospel-preaching churches, ultimately led by a future generation of indigenous church leaders.
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