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=== Growth of evangelical Christianity in the UK ===
=== Growth of evangelical Christianity in the UK ===
In December of 2017, the ''Church Times'' reported:
{{Cquote|In 2016, the Centre for Theology and Community (CTC) published new research on Evangelical church-planting in east London, Love, Sweat and Tears (News, 8 April 2016, Features, 21 April). This confirmed the widely recognised image of Evangelicals as people who like to plant churches, but it also revealed that the way they work is not at all how people often imagine.
All of these Evangelical churches were planted in deprived areas, not suburbs; most of their members were local; one parish was cross-tradition; every parish was reaching people who do not attend church; and all of them were involved in social-action projects that served their local communities.<ref>[https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2017/8-december/comment/opinion/church-growth-is-not-just-for-evangelicals Church growth is not just for Evangelicals]</ref>}}
On December 14, 2009, the British newspaper ''The Telegraph'' reported:
On December 14, 2009, the British newspaper ''The Telegraph'' reported: