City Reaching: On the Road to Community Transformation

By Jack Dennison

Book Overview

On the Road to Community Transformation
This book assists Christians in fulfilling the Great Commission by presenting a clear and actionable plan for sharing the gospel in the cities of America and around the world. Dennison offers a comprehensive strategy for city reaching that is both spiritual and practical, aiming to elevate the Church's role in global missionary service. Emphasizing prayer, unity, and strategic engagement, Dennison encourages believers to see urban centers as vital mission fields. He outlines how churches can work together across denominational lines to transform cities through intentional evangelism, discipleship, and community impact.
City Reaching stresses the importance of understanding urban culture and developing long-term commitments to reach diverse populations. By blending theological insight with on-the-ground tactics, Dennison empowers readers to actively participate in God's redemptive work in urban settings. His approach calls the Church to rise to a new level of commitment and collaboration in carrying out Christ's mission to the nations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087808777X
• ISBN13: 9780878087778
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: William Carey Publishing
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Putting Your Faith to Work

This powerful book resonates with all Christians who feel that the church in America has become stale, compromising, and irrelevant for our times. How can we reach today's generations with authentic faith? How can we call on God's power to make a difference in our communities? This book provides an exciting answer -- to all who genuinely seek an active presence for God's church in these trying times. Renewal, revival, and community transformation ARE possible. May we join together in making it happen!

Outstanding Resource!

As the General Supervisor of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in the United States, I constantly look for leading edge thinking to resource our 5,000 licensed ministers. Jack Dennison's book, CITY REACHING, is a seminal work which provides a strong biblical basis, historical precedent, and international testing for his city reaching model.I ordered and distributed cases of this book to leaders including the 225 Divisional Superintendents in the U.S. I believe CITY REACHING will provide the platform for experimentation and a growing body of literature that will inform a return to reaching our cities. I will continue to use this book as our primary resource for city reaching information.

The church is back in the city!

The concepts shared in this book have revolutionized my own life. My concern has moved from simply a local church focus to a vision for the whole church engaging the culture. Jack Dennison has opened a major window for the church in our generation. Not only does he demonstrate a fresh awareness of cities as a pivotal place of mission at this time in history but also a re-thinking of how the church operates as one unified church in an urban setting. I hope every serious Christian reads this book for it will undoubtedly spark a fire leading to transforming action just as it has in my life.

A must read for anyone serious reaching cities for Christ

Jack Dennison has the best grasp of city-reaching than anyone I know so it was not a surprise to me that this book is so insightful and valuable in fleshing out the city-reaching vision. Jack masterfully describes the historical setting and the basic biblical principles involved in this stategy which has so completely captured the imagination of missiologists all over the world. This book is definitely a must-read for anyone really serious about getting involved in city-reaching. As a practitioner down in the trenches trying to make city-wide mobilization of the church a functional reality and not just a theroretical construct, this book is a real answer to prayer. If someone reads and digests this book, they will be miles ahead in the greatest innovation for end time harvest that can be imagined. Jack didn't write this book because he likes to write--he doesn't. He wrote it out of a passion to see the world reached for Christ. I believe God is going to use this book mightily to fire the imagination of men and women all over the world.

Foundational for achieving lasting urban transformation.

Dennison has produced an excellently articulated, well organized, and revolution-catalyzing challenge, and process guide. He has hit the nail on the head regarding the state of the Church in America. His experience has obviously prepared him for being an apostle to the Church and cities of America. His strategies for mobilizing the whole Church to reach the whole city are clearly set forth, Biblically-based, and logical. This book promises to be a transitional document in setting the Church on a new, transforming, and crucially needed course.