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Rev Peter Crumpler2023-07-18T14:48:00
The Brighton-based vicar Rev Martin Poole has been experimenting with creative forms of outreach. In Church Beyond Walls he explains how others can join him in finding new ways of presenting Christ’s timeless message
When fewer people than ever are coming to church, how do you take the church to them? And how do you make the Christian gospel relevant to people with little knowledge of Jesus and the Bible?
The answer, according to Rev Martin Poole’s fascinating new book, could be Nativity scenes in beach huts, spiritual trails through town centres, community art in public places and doing theology in pubs.
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