This is an exciting and important book about one of the most forward-looking project of our time. It is a book about the grassroots church of today and the future, in all denominations. It shows beyond doubt, during a period when there is a crisis of confidence about church work, that the local institutional church can make a unique contribution to all aspects of community life; that is, when clergy and laity work with rather than for people in their churches and their neighbourhoods.
This book is the report of Project 70-75: a project about ways is which local churches can get people, Christians and non-Christians, to promote their inner growth through thinking, discussing, deciding and acting together. The report shows that this process is as relevant to church as to community work. The essential message of the book is that this form of co-operation really produces better people and better religion.