Recently there has been a growing concern for the health of gospel churches. But very often that concern comes down to the introduction of a few new items to the church agenda – a Christian foundations course here or a discipleship course there.

The agenda of this book is different. It's vision is that the whole way a church should be formed, run and led should work for the health of all its members and the thriving of the church as a community of God's people. It is a church with an intentional mindset throughout. It is a church where all the dots are joined up.

The church of Christ will be completely pure only in the new creation. But local churches are to be a colony of that Pure Church now. This book is a call to work towards that purity.