QUENCH
Café culture evangelism
By David Robertson
SOLAS — Centre for Public Christianity
73 pages. £4.00
This little book comes from SOLAS, the Centre for Public Christianity in Dundee (www.solas-cpc.org). The aim of its author, David Robertson, who is the director of the centre, is to encourage Christians to move out to places where people gather daily, to engage with the public there and make Christ known.
In the UK now, while pubs are closing, the rise of the coffee shop in the High Street seems unstoppable. David Robertson has a track record of public engagement (The Dawkins Letters) and in this book he encourages Christians to make use of café culture to facilitate bringing the gospel to the public who would not dream of darkening the doors of our churches. The title of the book points to the spiritual thirst out there and the fact that, in the gospel, we can point the way to quenching that thirst.
