A BIG GOSPEL IN SMALL PLACES:
Why ministry in forgotten communities matters
By Stephen Witmer
IVP (USA). 204 pages. £13.70
ISBN 978 0 830 841 554
This watershed book could bring a much-needed turning point for evangelicalism.
As someone who has tried for over 20 years to raise the profile and priority of helping little churches I rejoiced to read every page. The Gospel Coalition have got behind it, and now that the Americans are highlighting work in small places perhaps we will at last begin to get somewhere.
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