As it has been said, “If we always do what we’ve always done, we’ll always get what we’ve always gotten.” Building movements that transform America requires a different kind of activity than before.
George Sweeting, president of Moody Bible Institute from 1971-1987, wrote a short booklet entitled The Challenge of the City which focuses on the unique needs and opportunities for ministry in cities. Here’s an excerpt:
My OC colleague, Murray Moerman, recently attended the Lausanne III Conference in Capetown, South Africa along with 4,000 Christian leaders from 198 countries around the world.
I met with a pastor recently who moved to Washington from Texas. He pastors a church that is over 60 years old and was started by southerners who moved to the Northwest many decades ago.
Bob Logan became a mentor to me as I planted a church in Southern California in 1990. I’ll never forget the conversation we had just a month before our public grand opening.
Volunteers from World Relief and local ethnic churches visit men and women at the Immigration Detention Center in Tacoma every Sunday, listening, talking and praying with detainees eager for visitors.
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