How can we call people to a life of self-sacrifice, yet promise to meet up with them for an hour once a week?

Deprivation in urban areas tends to be geographically concentrated in certain neighbourhoods. In contrast, in rural areas, deprivation often exists at the scale of streets rather than whole neighbourhoods.

Inability to connect. Constant fear and mistrust. Deep insecurities. And, more than anything, shame.

Is ministry to the poor only for those who feel ‘called’?

Hint: They aren’t biblical.

In the schemes of Scotland, and in many poor communities across the world, we face an overwhelming task that is unfinished. And that is to reach the poor with the Word of God, in order that we might rejoice with the poor by singing the Word.

Biblical leaders follow Jesus and help others to follow Him.

‘No refuge, no safety in self could I see—Jehovah Tsidkenu my Saviour must be.’

As the trend of church planting has grown exponentially in recent years, I fear that something more sinister has grown alongside it.

People often tell us that the culture clash between middle- and working-class people doesn’t exist. Evidence shows otherwise.