Inner city church

Inner city church.
We all know that the inner city has been largely abandoned by the church.The congregations are growing old and moving out this has been the case for many years.I have lived in Glasgow all my life and I can see it with my own eyes.
What we have left now is a situation where nearly all large,strong congregations are in the suburbs.These Church's are led (in my experience)mostly by middle class qualified pastors or ministers depending on there flavour.I cannot think of many working class people who lead large growing church's I hope you can prove me wrong.As a result of this more and more people bypass smaller church's to attend a church that meets there needs and thus the problem is increased.What we are left with is a smaller amount of church's (which may not be a bad thing) who have most of the resources.None of this is a criticism of people or church's.I have many great friends in church's all over Glasgow and Scotland.Rather this is just a statement of how it is.
So what should be done about this if anything?
I would like to see the small inner city church's get together and have a place to talk and pray about what there struggles are and to find a way to support each other in addressing these issues.This would not be a bashing club for big church's but rather a place where we can think about how and if we address these issues.It may be that people are just to busy surviving.
I know that large church's already do a great amount to bless the city but It would be good to try and look at ways that practical support could be offered to small struggling church's so that we don't have to reinvent the wheel in parts of our city.It would be great to be able to challenge the model of church that tells us we are there to be blessed and have our needs looked after and together to try and see the value of the body as a whole .It is my firm belief that the church in the inner city can and should grow and prosper.That local leaders can be raised up to inspire there peers and show the way forward for a new generation.If not then we will simply write of a whole generation of people who are our neighbours.
Paul wrote to church's based in cities and the Angels delivered letters to them.Jesus wept over his city and I think we should try and help each other to see Gods heart for the lost in ours.



I want to finish with a story form the other night.



I was at a meeting when I heard plans for a group which might be classed as para church but are definitely middle class.They spoke about there plan to raise £250k to buy a bus /trailer that would go around a certain developing country and minister in a holistic way to the people.There is nothing wrong with that plan.

Except we were next told that there sister group in the same country has way more resources than they do and in fact employ nearly 500 people and have a budget that it10 times the size.

I then realised that I was in the room with lots of people from small struggling inner city church's and I felt saddened that there was no plan that included them.