Thursday, October 21, 2010

CAPE TOWN: Christians must go into the cities - Tim Keller

CAPE TOWN: Christians must go into the cities - Tim Keller

By David W. Virtue in Cape Town
www.virtueonline.org
October 20, 2010

Cities are crucially important culturally, missiologically and viscerally, declared American church planter Tim Keller to several thousand participants at the Third Lausanne Congress on Evangelism.

Here are his thoughts:

On Culture: The world will be dominated by the city, not a particular nation. We have to go the city.

Missiology: In the cities, there are four kinds of people. The most unreached peoples are more reachable in cities. Break old ties, new pluralistic, younger generation. People who tend to make the films, write books and do deals are there. The poor are there as well as elites. You reach people at the top and bottom.

Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org

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