God''s Belongers: The four ways people engage with church and how we encourage them

Gods Belongers should transform our thinking about what it means to belong to church. Uniquely, David Walker replaces the old and worn division between members and nonmembers with a fourfold model of belonging: through relationship, through place, through events, and through activities. From his extensive practical research, the author shows how belonging can encompass a far wider group of people than those who attend weekly services. This opens up creative opportunities for mission in todays world. In this excellent book David Walker brings together his considerable gifts as a first-rate mathematician and theologian in a highly accessible manner. The result is not only fascinating and thought-provoking: its insights have the potential significantly to renew the mission of the church in its efforts to make the love of God in Jesus known. I hope it will be very widely read. The Right Revd Dr John Inge, Bishop of Worcester See more