Martin Scott's previous book, Gaining Ground, focused on the development of strategic prayer, examined possible new shapes for the 21st Century Church and looked at how churches can join together in a unified prayer initiative that will reach their community. In Impacting the City, Martin breaks new ground and takes these concepts further to look at how God's people can reach their city. Martin Scott unfolds a fourfold City-reaching strategy and contends that wherever these four elements are combined, the Church will make a great impact: when those carrying responsibility within the pastoral realm of the body of Christ come together in unity; when believers stand together to exert influence through every sphere of life in their cities (i.e. the commercial centres, the arts, financial institutions etc); when multi-level prayer is developed; and, when a prophetic watchpeople rises up in the city so that the voice of God is being heard through all that is taking place. Scott also proposes that there are a limited number of city types based on the cities that Jesus addresses in the book of Revelation. These types are examined so that readers will be able to identify the characteristics of their own city and consequently form a more appropriate strategy for obtaining a breakthrough.