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Smack Heads and Fat Cats is a gripping challenge to love people who are not yet followers of Christ and to give them an opportunity to experience what it means to be a Christian. It is a call to engage in the adventure of being the good news.


Written in three parts it outlines: a vision for evangelism; a biblical mandate for why we should be good news; and how we can do evangelism.

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This book is about a subject which isn't too sexy in Christian circles: evangelism.
Through storytelling and biblical teaching, Smack Heads and Fat Cats outlines a vision for evangelism which doesn't just preach the message, but lives the message. Which loves people enough to show them what Jesus is like.
It's an invitation to join the adventure of being good news. Because everyone, from the street to the boardroom, needs to hear it.
Summary:
Smack Heads and Fat Cats is a gripping challenge to love people who are not yet followers of Christ and to give them an opportunity to experience what it means to be a Christian. It is a call to engage in the adventure of being the good news.
Written in three parts it outlines: a vision for evangelism; a biblical mandate for why we should be good news; and how we can do evangelism.

From the Foreword:
"I've read lots of books on evangelism. Yet this one made me rethink some of my cherished assumptions, and above all inspired me to see people as God sees them. I think it will do the same for you. Read, enjoy, and ask God to use you to show and share the faith to others." 
James Lawrence, Director of Leadership Development, CPAS
Chris draws you into his book by lulling you into a false sense of security. One minute your laughing at his stories and the next minute WHACK! your thinking about Evangelism in different ways.
Graham Doel, Baptist Minister
Chris is the real deal. His book is written in a catchy and earthy style. Great stories that will make you laugh and cry. Truth that will refresh your soul. His encouragement to be the good news is infectious. Buy it. Read it. Live it. And give it away.
Nic Harding, Senior Pastor Frontline Church Liverpool
Whether you think evangelism is an activity or a lifestyle this book will inspire every follower of Jesus to bring His presence into our communities.
Gary Sloan, UK Director Operation Mobilisation
Chris himself is an inspiration and his infectious love for God and people oozes out of this book. It's illuminating, enabling and empowering.
Penny Sharp, Course Co-ordinator of Invest Scotland; Equipping pioneering church planters.
A great book for those who are secretly afraid of the ‘e' word...engaging, it makes theology of evangelism truly simple.
Nix Shephard, Youth Worker
This book lives and breathes relevant and urgent mission for others - much like the author.
Neville Willerton, National Projects Officer for Fresh Expressions, Church Army.
Chris writes with passion, humour and conviction about what God can do in us, so that we become those who are good news as well as those who speak good news. A book that shouts out what is possible with God.
Keith Sinclair, Bishop of Birkenhead
Visionary Evangelism - Review in the Baptist Times, Thursday October 29th 2009 by The Revd Ian Bunce, Head of Mission BU
This book, by Chris Duffett, an accredited evangelist with the Baptist Union, is a useful contribution to the drought in thinking on the subject of evangelism.


Many observers have stated that the last 15 years have seen a move of evangelistic activities within the churches towards social action. This of course has led to many exciting and godly exercises, not least Hope 08. The weakness of this trend has been the statement recorded in that connection: ‘Some nice people came and tidied our street, we do not know who they are or why they did it.'


Chris charts his own journey and the discoveries he has made in his own ministry, and the setting up of The Light Project in Chester. There are moments of conversion in thinking and stories that make you sit up and think. In there main sections, Chris charts a vision for evangelism, why we should do it and a more practical section on how we can engage in it. His passion for God and his love for people seeps out of every page of this partly autobiographical reflection of God at work through his ministry.
Chris's point is that to make a difference you need to get alongside people, without judgement or patronisation. With echoes of Floyd McClung's Father Heart of God, it reaffirms Christ's call to truly enter the world which is inhabited by the ‘smack heads' (heroin addicts), to share the bench, make friends and show the genuine love of Christ in deed and action. This message is helpfully reinforced by case studies that bring the issue alive with real people and the testimonies of the work of God.
This is a read that leaves you examining your ministry, the way we do mission and our understanding of evangelism.

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