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'This important book sets out vital steps for government, civil
society and key stakeholders to create integrated care for our
young people.' Sir Tony Blair A Manifesto for Hope sets out ten
tried-and-tested practical principles for how to develop joined-up,
cost-effective, community-empowering work, gleaned from the
hard-won experience that has sat at the heart of Steve Chalke's
mission over the past four decades. It's time to reimagine. Our
social care systems are failing us, struggling for funding, and
failing to speak to one another. At the same time, we are
side-lining our greatest national asset: its people - mums, dads,
families, and other community members. Steve demonstrates the stark
choice facing us: keep pouring money into a faltering system, or
reform and invest to improve people's lives. We need a new social
covenant that empowers local charities, grassroots movements and
faith groups - creating a more imaginative, more collaborative and
less bureaucratic approach to community development - if we are
going to transform the life chances of countless young people and
families. Steve Chalke calls for a radical reset. It's time for A
Manifesto for Hope! This is a book for anyone working with young
people and the communities they belong to, and for those interested
in social reform and transformation. Challenging and informing, A
Manifesto for Hope comes from a heart dedicated to the service of
that local community, written to support those that act every day
to see something that has true life-changing impact in the places
where it's most needed.
A fresh---and perhaps controversial---look at Jesus by one of
Britain s most respected Christian authors. Who is the real Jesus?
Do we remake him in our own image and then wonder why our
spirituality is less than life-changing and exciting? Steve
Chalke---a high-profile visionary in the United Kingdom and an
evangelical recognized not only by Christians but by the general
public as well---believes that the real Jesus is deeply
challenging. And each new generation must grapple with the question
of who he is, because only through a constant study of Jesus are we
able to discover God himself. The Lost Message of Jesus is written
to stir thoughtful debate and pose fresh questions that will help
create a deeper understanding of Jesus and his message. It is an
encounter with the real Jesus of his world---not the Jesus we try
to mold to ours. Themes include: *The Kingdom of God---shalom---is
available to everyone now, through Jesus *The world outside your
own church needs to hear of the depth of God s love and suffering
*Jesus was a radical and a revolutionary *Jesus offers immediate
forgiveness, without cost, to anyone *Jesus shows us repentance isn
t a guilt-laden list of dos and don ts, but an inspirational vision
of a new way to live Focusing on some of the key episodes, events,
and issues of Jesus life, we will see how too often the message we
preach today has been influenced more by the culture we live in
than the radical, life-changing, world-shaping message Jesus shared
two thousand years ago."
Change agents are pioneers, entrepreneurs, innovators. They can be
difficult, annoying, and demanding. But their calling is demanding
too: to take a vision and wrench it into reality. When Steve Chalke
was asked to be the senior minister of a dying inner-city church,
he knew what he wanted: to make it into a Christian equivalent of a
first-century synagogue. A place where the community gathered, not
just to pray and hear sermons, but to be educated, entertained, and
find help. Making it all happen was the harder part. In Change
Agents, the author shares twenty-five lessons he learned during
this work. He had to teach himself to respond, not react; say no
more than yes, give up being everyone s friend, and accept that any
success was only a short respite between two crises. Employing wry
humor, personal examples, and a large helping of practical advice,
Steve Chalke reminds us our enterprise, not our caution, with the
Word of God is what s rewarded. Christ waits and watches for us to
take risks and create change in the church, the community, and the
world at large."
Arguably the most imaginative and energetic church response to the
pandemic has been that of HeartEdge, the interdenominational church
renewal movement founded at St Martin in the Fields by Samuel Wells
but now extending beyond the UK to Europe, North America and
Australia. From serving thousands of meals on London's streets to
becoming, in all but name, an online conference centre and
theological college offering hundreds of events, one outstanding
feature of its programme has been Samuel Wells' monthly
conversations about the future of the Church with leading figures
from Britain and America, attended by large online audiences. This
volume offers a distillation of those conversations which, instead
of being preoccupied with decline, focus on what Christian presence
and practice might look like in the world that is being reshaped by
what the pandemic has revealed, and the theology that is needed to
sustain such a vision.
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Hungry for Hope? (Paperback)
Nick Baines; Foreword by Steve Chalke
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Nick Baines takes a look at the Christian meaning of Hope from an
unusual perspective. For several years, Nick worked at GCHQ in
Cheltenham, during which he came face-to-face with many
difficulties in a complex world. These were human difficulties,
which had to be faced without the involvement of God. Because of
this experience, Nick is impatient with simplistic, jargon-filled
Christian explanations, which all too often ignore the real world
and its many problems. As a pastor, Nick then had to offer comfort
and advice while knowing that all he could do was suffer with them.
And it is from these experiences that Nick wrote Hungry for Hope?
He draws on the Scriptures and on his dealings with the everyday
world and addresses those whose personal world has fallen apart at
some point.
'Your life is precious - a precious gift. It is sacred; every
moment of it. The opportunity to live rather than sleepwalk through
our days belongs to us. This book is a call to wake up. It is a
call to each one of us; to wake up, to live before we die.' It's
easy to sleepwalk through life without ever really considering what
we're here for. But life presents us with continual opportunities
to wake up - and to think about not just what we do with our lives,
but who we become while living them. Ultimately it is the story
that we believe about ourselves, our lives and the world around us
that will shape us - for better or for worse. So where do we find a
good story - a convincing narrative that makes sense of it all?
Steve Chalke suggests that Jesus' good news about the kingdom of
God - a practical, lived-out expression of God's plans for the
world - is the best story for us to find ourselves in. Each one of
us is called to be part of the drama of the coming kingdom, and
it's in this that we find a practical spirituality that helps shape
our lives into everything we were meant to be.
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