Caleb Baker’s Reviews > Church in Hard Places: How the Local Church Brings Life to the Poor and Needy > Status Update

“Fifty years ago in Scotland, mission halls were thriving in the schemes of our big cities. City-center churches often saw them as places for young preachers to get an opportunity to practice their craft. Unfortunately, these churches never encouraged the young men to stay there and establish local churches. People were converted through the preaching but these converts were not gathered together into churches”

In an age when much of the prevailing Christian thought about the poor concerns loving them and boosting their self-esteem, hell can seem like a bridge too far for many people…God wants to save sinners But he will not do it through any other means than the glorious gospel of his Son. He will not share his glory, so no half-gospel or watered-down message will do.