Sorry for the long quote, but I felt I had to share. This is from Tim Kellers Center Church : The challenge is to establish churches and other ministries that effectively engage the realities of the world. The majority of Evangelical Protestants who presently control the United States mission apparatus are typically white and non-urban in background. They neither understand nor in most cases enjoy urban life. As I have been arguing, many of the prevailing ministry methods are forged outside of urban areas and then simply imported, with little thought given to the unnecessary barriers this practice erects between urban-dwellers and the gospel. Consequently, when ministers go into a city, they often find it especially hard to evangelize and win urban people-and equally difficult to disciple converts and prepare Christians for life in a pluralistic, secular, culturally engaged setting. Just as the Bible needs to be translated into its readers vernacular, so the gospel needs to be embodied and communicated in ways that are understandable to the residents of a city.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 08:17:59 +0000
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