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  • >> On Wednesday night I was privileged, invited to speak about why we need to reach cities.

  • And why we can reach cities. It was more of a what is our motivation? What is our reasoning

  • for reaching cities? We said – I said that night that even though you need churches everywhere

  • there is people, the fact is that people are moving into cities much faster than the church

  • is moving into cities. The church has got to go where the people are. That just makes

  • sense. And the city is underserved by the church. So we talked about the reasons why

  • but what I want to do now is talk about what I mentioned very briefly that night and that

  • is how.

  • How do you reach cities? I would like to suggest two ways, one through planting and renewing

  • churches that are contextual to the city, and then secondly by establishing city-wide

  • Gospel movements. Contextual churches and city-wide Gospel movements.

  • Now, by contextual churches I mean this, there is China and urban China. There is America

  • and then there’s urban America. The differences between America and urban America are enormous

  • and yet it’s typical in most, I think, parts of the world for Christianity to be forged

  • in the non-urban parts of the country and so there is a way of speaking, a way of communicating,

  • a way of living together and a way of organizing the church that fits perfectly that part of

  • the world, that part of the country. And then what typically happens is people just pick

  • those churches up and set them down in the middle of cities in a completely urban context

  • and they don’t seem to be effective and everybody says what’s wrong, it must be

  • the awful city dwellers. They just don’t love Jesus.

  • When actually it’s because we haven’t created contextual churches. Let me give you

  • a quick list of ten things that would be some examples of what I mean by a church that is

  • contextualized for the city. None of these, well, I would say most of these things are

  • notnone of these things are unique all by themselves. I would say many churches outside

  • of cities might be characterized by these things as well, but churches in the city have

  • to be characterized by them. Here is what they are.

  • Number one, I mentioned about half of them on Wednesday night very briefly. Number one,

  • churches that are contextualized for the city have to be extremely culturally sensitive.

  • Here is why. Our culture is largely invisible to us. So many of the ways in which we act

  • and think are really unique to us culturally and they are kind of invisible to us. Therefore,

  • when you start a church in a more homogenously monocultural place, people come together and

  • they communicate with each other and they talk with each other, they plan events, they

  • make decisions and nobody even sits around and says how should we do that because everybody

  • in that culture does it in a certain way automatically.

  • When you go into cities you are going to be uniting people from different cultures in

  • the same church. You can’t reach cities, you can’t reach center cities unless you

  • are bringing people together from different cultures. And as a result, there is going

  • to be tension because all kinds of things thathow you make a decision and how you

  • even organize events and how you communicate and how you preach and how you do discipleship

  • and how you do pastoral care are different in different cultures and in order to create

  • a multi-cultural church, a church committed to combining the various people of the city,

  • the different cultures in one church, it is going to createit’s going to take a

  • lot of ingenuity and creativity but most of all it’s going to take a lot of discussion

  • and itll probably take a lot of debating.

  • Let me put it this way. An urban church has to expect constant complaints of racial and

  • cultural insensitivity. It has to expect them. It has to be patient with them and it has

  • to expect them never to really go away. If you have a multi-cultural church very often

  • when youre forming it youre excited ant get everybody together and then there

  • are a lot of fights and you get through them and say now were one people and everything

  • is fine.

  • And five years later, six years seven years later youre still having regularly disagreements,

  • misunderstandings, charges of racial or cultural insensitivity and they will never go away

  • if you are a church that is committed to being an interracial multi-cultural church and churches

  • in the city almost always have to be that and therefore you say that’s the price we

  • pay to do something the Gospel wants us to do. There will always be difficulties. There

  • will always be a struggle. Well always be working on this. Well never get it right.

  • Well always have to be patiently listening to each other. That’s the first mark of

  • an urbanized, contextualized church. It’s multi-cultural. It knows there is going to

  • be friction and it knows that’s just the way it’s going to be. It’s not upset.

  • The leaders aren’t sayingoh my goodness if were going to be dealing with charges

  • of racism, I don’t want to be dealing with these people.’ As soon as you say that that

  • shows youre not ready to be a leader of an urban church. So, the first mark of these

  • churches is that they are very culturally sensitive.

  • Secondly, as we mentioned again on Wednesday night, they have to be churches that help

  • their people integrate their faith in their work. Work is more important to people in

  • cities in general than it is elsewhere. People go to cities very often to get work, to be

  • in work or to be in their careers. And yet most churches really don’t give people in

  • secular, what we call secular vocations, much guidance for how theyre supposed to conduct

  • them.

  • We have a tendency in churches to disciple people by bringing them more and more out

  • of their jobs, into the church and if theyre really, really, really dynamic disciples theyll

  • leave their jobs and go into ministry. For example, I’ll give you one example. At Redeemer,

  • my church in New York City, some years ago we established something called the Entrepreneurship

  • Forum. And it was largely due to the fact that people noticed that when folks in our

  • church sometimes rose up through the ranks, became staff members, became ministers of

  • the church, sometimes we gave them money to go off and start their own churches and somebody

  • said what about the rest of us? What about the 99% of us that aren’t ministers?

  • So we started the Entrepreneurship Forum. And the Entrepreneurship Forum is several

  • more successful entrepreneurs put money into a fund and then we have a business plan competition

  • for Christians. And we ask people to give a business plan for a for-profit, a non-profit

  • and Arts initiative. And every year we give startup money to help people get a for-profit

  • started or non-profit started, which usually helps the poor, or an Arts initiative started.

  • And the business model has to show Gospel thinking. It has to show Christian thinking

  • in conceiving of this new business or this new initiative.

  • And then we give seed money to it. What’s that? That’s in a sense church planting

  • for everybody else who is not actually a church planter. For all the other Christians in your

  • church who are lay people. You have got to lift them up and affirm them in their secular

  • vocations. Youve got to show them how to think Christianly about their vocations. Youve

  • got to celebrate and affirm them. If you don’t do that, youre not really an urban church.

  • Thirdly, in general urban people versus suburban or rural people, are edgy. That is, they are

  • they like cutting edge things, they like change. They like sometimes disorder, they

  • like diversity. People outside of cities like order. They like stability, they like safety

  • and therefore there is an urban sensibility that is very important for your church to

  • have because if you want it to beif you want to be a successful church leaders in

  • an urban situation, you have to be comfortable with disorder. You have to be comfortable

  • with change. You have to be comfortable with urban sensibility. That’s number three.

  • Number four, evangelism. In cities, evangelism is complicated. There is different kinds of

  • people. If you go intoif you go into London, for example, you have many, many Muslims

  • who think that Christians are way too loosey goosey morally. I don’t know how youll

  • translate that, I’m sorry. In other words, way too loose morally. On the other hand youve

  • got the secular Brits and they look at Christians as way too narrow-minded. Way too moralistic.

  • You can’t possibly, therefore, come up with a little Gospel presentation that works beautifully

  • well with the Muslim neighbor and beautifully well with a secular neighbor. Theyre very

  • different.

  • In cities evangelism has to be a high priority for a church. You can only really grow in

  • cities through evangelism. The only other way to grow in a city besides evangelism is

  • to suck Christians out of the other churches in the city which doesn’t help the body

  • of Christ in the city very well at all. You have to be intensely evangelistic but in the

  • cities the kind of research you have to do and apologetics and understanding the things

  • that the popular culture or the things that the different people groups, understanding

  • their worldview and coming up with very different kinds of evangelistic approaches for very

  • different kinds of people that’s all the kind of work in an urban church you have to

  • do.

  • Sixth, along with intense evangelism your church needs to be famous for its care for

  • the poor. If the city sees you only evangelizing and growing that way, they will assume youre

  • just out for power and money because youre just trying to increase your tribe. But if

  • the city sees you caring about the poor, caring about issues of justice in the city, then

  • theyll say well, maybe these people really domaybe they really are characterized

  • by Jesuslove. You have to be famous for your love for the city.

  • What you really – a good urban church is a church in which the neighbors around look

  • at that church and say I don’t agree with many of the things they teach. In fact, some

  • of the things they teach offend me but I don’t know what this city would do without that

  • church. If that church went away we’d have to raise taxes because theyre pressing

  • so much value into the city. That’s the kind of urban church you need to be.

  • A couple more. In most churches artists, musicians, visual artists are hired hands. We have things

  • that we want to do and then we go out and we hire the artists and we ask them to do

  • it. But in cities artists are part of your constituency. Theyre kind of an ethnic

  • group. They have their own culture. They have their own way of thinking about things. When

  • artists come in and listen to your music they hear it very differently than the way most

  • people do. And if you want to have an artist-friendly church you have to empower the artists. You

  • have to bring them in and say what do you think of the music, what do you think of the

  • way in which we do things? The Arts have to be taken very, very seriously by an urban

  • church.

  • And one more thing. Relationships are probably more important in doing urban ministry than

  • anywhere else. Things happen in cities through relationships. And it takes years and years

  • and years to develop those relationships. The worst thing you can do is to take an urban

  • leader who has grown up in a city and take them away to give them theological education

  • somewhere else. You pull them away from all their networks, you pull them away from all

  • their relationships, you take them over here and put them in another city and you give

  • them theological education and then what? What you really need to do if you grow up

  • leaders who can really do urban churches is you have to find indigenous urban people who

  • are potential leaders and you have to give them theological education on the ground.

  • Now, lastly, I don’t believe a city can be reached strictly by one church or even

  • a big church or even a church planting network. I would like to talk to you just for one minute

  • or two on what a city reaching movement really is.

  • To me a city reaching movement is when the body of Christ is growing faster than the

  • population of the wholeof the city. So when the number of Christians is going from

  • 1% to 3% to 5% to 10% of the population every 10 or 20 years, now you have a movement. You

  • don’t just have a few churches planting churches, you have a movement. What creates

  • a movement?

  • Number one, what creates a movement is five or six church planting movements in different

  • denominations or traditions. I know I’m going to sound facetious here. I’m a Presbyterian

  • and I like being a Presbyterian. I enjoy my Presbyterian heritage and my Presbyterian

  • distinctives. For reasons that escape me, not every person in New York City who wants

  • to become a Christian wants to be a Presbyterian. I’m still doing the research on it and I

  • haven’t found out the reasons for it.

  • I do know that Pentecostals and Anglicans and Methodists and Baptists and Presbyterians

  • tend to reach different kinds of people and in different sorts ofif I’m caring

  • about increasing my tribe and not really caring about reaching the whole city for Christ,

  • then all that matters is I plant Presbyterian churches. But it’s my job if I love the

  • city to make sure that church planting movements are going on not only in my own denomination

  • but to help them get going in the other ones. We need four, five, six, seven church planting

  • movements going on. That means if you have 10 churches and five of them are planting

  • another church every five years and half of them are planting a church every five years,

  • youve got a movement.

  • And unless there is five, six, seven or eight of those kinds of vital church planting movements

  • going on you do not have even a chance for a city-wide Gospel movement. But then around

  • those churches you need several things. You need a network of prayer in which the churches

  • are coming together to pray. You need evangelistic specialists that are reaching especially campus

  • college students and youth.

  • Number three, you need all kinds of justice and mercy initiatives where Christians are

  • coming together outside the churches coming together to combat this or that meeting this

  • problem, this social issue, helping people in this needy neighborhood and so forth.

  • And then you also need to get all the people together in the city in their vocational fields.

  • The artists need to get together who are Christians. The journalists need to get together who are

  • Christians. The media people, the business people. Acrossyou can call these things

  • specialist ministry networks.

  • Prayer, evangelism, justice and mercy, then you also need faith work initiative ministries.

  • You also need institutions that help Christians stay in the city. In New York City the Jews

  • have done a wonderful job of creating institutions, community centers, schools all sorts of things

  • that keep families, Jewish families in the city, living in the city long-term so they

  • can have the jobs, so they can have the jobs in publishing, in the media, in publishing,

  • in business and so forth.

  • But most of all and lastly, you have to have the leaders of these various networks and

  • the leaders of these various churches regularly meeting together, not turf conscious, kingdom

  • minded instead of tribally minded to say what does our city need? And for a city-reaching

  • Gospel movement there has to be that inner core of five or six church planting movements.

  • The outer core of this ministry networks which are rooted in the church. The churches help

  • the ministries, the ministries bring people into the church. The churches support the

  • ministries and when that happens you can start to see what I think is possible, which right

  • now is not happening, I don’t think, in any other center city in the world where is

  • the Gospel-believing Christians are growing so much faster in the core of the center city

  • that a greater and greater percentage of the city is becoming Christian.

  • That will have a huge impact on the culture, it will have a huge impact on the city and

  • I think that is an overview, a quick overview of what I think we have to do in order to

  • reach cities today. Thank you.

>> On Wednesday night I was privileged, invited to speak about why we need to reach cities.

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