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Christians cannot expect to influence the wider culture without living and being active in the city.
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As the main purveyor of influence to surrounding communities, the city is where culture is formed. The Christian desire to shape culture with the gospel therefore requires Christians to live and be active in the city.
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The importance of cities for the church today. This talk was given to over 400 church leaders from around the world at the Global Cities Initiative in September 2009.
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The importance of cities for the church today. A handout accompanying the talk given at the Global Cities Initiative.
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In many ways, cities are the very best places to raise children. The city plays a crucial role in raising children who embrace the Christian faith.
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The term Christian was first applied to a group of ethnically and racially diverse believers in Antioch, the capital of Syria. They were drawn together by the gospel and witnessed the power of God's love in the midst of urban strife and problems. Across cities of the world, as in New York City, strong spiritual bonds flourish between Christian faith and large urban areas. It's a combination that shatters cultural barriers, and causes conversions, the transformation of lives, personal depth, charity, and social action. God has a heart for the city, do you?
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This paper surveys the rise of global cities, the culture and dominant worldviews within these cities, and a framework for ministering in them.
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What are the common principles for any church plant? This article explores five basic principles.
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When God asked Jonah to go to Nineveh, Jonah made every attempt and excuse to avoid it. Like Jonah, we may see crime, pollution, greed, and moral decay as deterrents to living in a city; but in God's eyes its peoples are precious, and his grace and mercy are available to all. Once we glimpse the heavenly eternal city, the city of God, we will share God's love for the city.
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From Psalm 48, we learn that the city of God is the joy of the whole earth; is embattled but called to live in peace and love; and will never be destroyed.
For us today, this means we are to be an Alternate City within New York City. To that end, we need hundreds of churches in the city. Therefore Redeemer has started a church planting center (which also plants churches in other denominations), and is itself becoming a multi-site church.
This was the second of four annual State of the Vision services at Redeemer Presbyterian Church.
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New York City is at a historic moment where it could change from a largely secular city to a faith-filled city. The people immigrating to New York today are predominantly coming from the parts of the world where Christianity is growing in influence and credibility: Asia, Latin America and Africa. Secularism is exhausted in the West, opening the door for a movement of the Gospel.To ignite the movement of the Gospel, Redeemer's vision focuses on planting churches throughout New York City with "Gospel DNA."
This was the third of four annual State
of the Vision services at Redeemer Presbyterian Church.
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All Christians are to live "in mission" in their cities, engaging in culture and serving others through sacrificial love and ministry. The goal of Redeemer is to be a church that engages secular people, builds long-term community, cares for the poor, helps Christians think through faith and work and plants many more churches that pursue this vision. For the first time in its history, Redeemer will raise money to buy a building to get deeper into its ministry to the city.
This was the fourth of four annual State
of the Vision services at Redeemer Presbyterian Church.
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Tim Keller looks at the past 40 years of North American cities, and discusses four challenges facing the urban North American church today: Hostility, Culture-making, Justice & Mercy, and Apologetics.
This talk was given to over 120 church planters at the City to City North American Network Gathering in Miami in March 2010.
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Isaiah tells a tale of two cities: the strong city and the lofty city. The former is divine, available through salvation, and based on peace and joy. The latter is human, self-created, and based on pride and accomplishment. Christians are called to seek the peace and prosperity of the city, both in prayer and as servants of society, looking forward to the final and eternal heavenly city where the trials of this world will cease.
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Jeremiah told the Jewish exiles in Babylon to seek the peace and prosperity of the city they found themselves in. Like New York, it was an enormous, intimidating city with diverse populations that espoused a variety of values and morals. However, God empowers Christians to relate and respond in love to all people, without either assimilating too much to the culture around us or separating ourselves through tribalism. As citizens of both the city of man and the city of God, we work on the principles of peace and grace for the betterment of all.
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As Christians in the 21st century, we are called to obey God's laws, because they are tools for understanding and expose the workings of our heart. Once we realize that we are saved by grace alone and accepted by God, we can respond to God in genuine obedience with transformed hearts. As members of a local Christian community, we become an alternate city within a city, a holy nation, representing Christ and serving the community in which we worship and live.
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While urban settings offer innumerable opportunities for evangelism and growing church plants, there are also many difficulties facing the planter. These include religious and social climate adjustments, cultural adjustments, and increased financial responsibilities. Excerpt from Coaching Urban Church Planters.
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One of the most effective ways for Christians today to be "a city on a hill" would be for a large number of believers to move into the largest cities and live out their lives there.
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