TOTAL CHURCH
A radical reshaping around gospel and community
By Tim Chester and Steve Timmis. IVP. 204 pages. £9.99
ISBN 978-1-84474-191-5
This book, like a good DIY product, does pretty well ‘what it says on the tin’. Total Church pleads for two key principles for church and mission.
First, the gospel as content: being word-centred (for the gospel is truth) and being mission-centred (for the gospel is truth to be proclaimed). Secondly, the community as context: sharing our lives as Christians and offering a place of belonging to unbelievers.