There are four key, near-term realities that can help us think through how we should respond with missionary intentionality in the present. First, we have the opportunity to think through ways that people most naturally gather. Sociologists say that people do this in several basic ways: (1) Shared Identity—the same language, culture, or age group;
I have always loved cities. I have been simultaneously fascinated by how different peoples choose to group themselves together and repulsed by how they…
Many new churches, especially those in urban areas are intentionally multi-ethnic. It is simply the nature of cities. All kinds of people from all…
Twenty years ago I read Frijof Capra’s The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems. As I read this book, I…