The Church in the UK is dominated by the middle class, who must eschew superior attitudes and empower working-class culture if the dearth of working-class people in their congregations is to be reversed.<\/p>\n
This is the message of A Church for the Poor<\/em> (David C. Cook), a new book whose authors, Martin Charlesworth and Natalie Williams, straddle the class divide.<\/p>\n \u201cIf the poor or working-class are uncomfortable in our churches, we don\u2019t need to convert them to our middle-class ways,\u201d the authors write. \u201cWe need to move out of our comfort zones and accept them as they are.\u201d<\/p>\n With a warning against \u201can attitude of superiority\u201d, they cite sermons that disparage Sun readers, and social-media postings by Christians who argued for an IQ test before people could vote in the EU referendum. Churches must \u201cconsciously empower the sub-culture of the incoming group\u201d, they argue.<\/p>\n