The Death of the Neighborhood Church

No other place represented the solace, strength, and reassurance that one strived to seek when overcome with fear and feeling all was lost as this building of worship - the neighborhood church - giving hope and ease to all and any trouble that pained one's heart by entering its doors and feeling the over-riding spirit that ever seemed to prevail within its walls. Yet, as Louise Gore-Sayre David notes, neighborhood churches all across the nation suffer from the challenges of moral failure and the loss of traditional values. David offers a powerful voice calling in the wilderness for the local church to regain its position of hope and authority in a desperately spiritually needy world.