God Next Door: Spirituality & Mission in the Neighbourhood

What if God lived next door? Would it make any difference to your neighbourhood? More importantly, would it make a difference to your role as a neighbour? Jesus summed up the essence of the Christian life as loving God with heart, soul, mind and strength and loving our neighbour as ourselves. God and neighbour are intimately linked and the call to loving our neighbours is high on the Christian agenda. So what does this mean for the way we live with the people next door?

Simon Carey Holt has listened to the experiences of numerous men and women of faith living in a variety of urban and suburban neighbourhoods. By drawing these experiences into conversation with biblical and cultural perspectives on residential life, he uncovers the spiritual possibilities of our neighbourhoods. The result is an inspiring new agenda for local mission in the 21st century.