Alternate Cities & Cultures

04/29/2006

Alternate Cities & Cultures

Once in cities, Christians should be a dynamic counterculture. It is not enough for Christians to simply live as individuals in the city. They must life as a particular kind of community. Jesus told his disciples that they were "a city on a hill" that showed God's glory to the world (Matt. 5:14-16). Christians are called to be an alternative city within every earthly city, and alternate human culture within every human culture, to show how sex, money, and power can be used in nondestructive ways.

Tim Keller in "A New Kind of Urban Christian," Christianity Today, May 2006, p. 38.

Apr 29, 2006 1:08:03 PM | Church, Missional, Theology, Urban

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So just so we're clear, (until I can get a copy of the article), he's talking about the potential for a different church involving different subcultures? (NOTE: POTENTIAL) I hear a lot about the multi-cultural churches and inclusion, and I think that's a good thing. What about planting a church among the goths or the bohemians (can you tell I live in New Orleans)? Is that something Keller is advocating? Or is it less about planting churches and just being a personal witness (missional-incarnational) ministry in and among the sub-cultures and their communities?

Posted by: Joe Kennedy | 04/30/2006 at 08:01 PM

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