God’s intent for cities
This morning during a staff meeting with my Campus Crusade team, I ran across this quote in Redeemer Presbyterian Church’s Gospel and Heart course:
“God in our time is moving climactically through a variety of social, political, and economic factors to bring earth’s people into closer contact with one another, into greater interaction and interdependence, and into earshot of the gospel. Through worldwide migration to the city, God may be setting the stage for Christian mission’s greatest and perhaps final hour… now that a majority of the world’s unreached populations live in cities… To ignore the plight of the urban masses or refuse to grapple with the trials and complexities of city life is worse than merely a strategic error. It is unconscionable disobedience to God, whose providence directs the movements of people and creates missionary opportunity.”
Acts 17:27-28: “He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him…”
- Roger Greenway, “World Urbanization and Missiological Education” in Missiological Education fo rthe Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of Paul Pierson (Orbis, 1996)