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Loving the City: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry In Your City is unavailable, but you can change that!

Even if you don’t go to the city to minister, make no mistake—the city is coming to you. Regardless of your particular cultural or geographical context, you will need to consider the city when forming a theological vision that engages the people you are trying to reach. In Loving the City, bestselling author and pastor Timothy Keller looks at the biblical foundations for contextualizing the...

our drilling—when we challenge the culture’s errors on the basis of something it (rightly) believes—that we will see the gospel having an impact on people. For example, consider the biblical doctrine of “the priesthood of all believers.” This doctrine fits well with our Western concept of the freedom and rights of the individual, and Western churches can easily “drill” into this cultural narrative by stressing the importance of lay ministry. However, it is also possible for our Western individualism
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