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Episode 255: Tim Keller on The Vanishing Neighbor & Polarization

Patrick Bradley — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:00:34 +0000

by NewChurches.com: In cities today, people are dividing more often than uniting and coming together.

In Episode 255 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, we wanted to share snippets of Tim Keller’s talk at our last Church Planting Fellowship Network in November 2017 where he shared 5 trends in urban cities. In this episode, Tim talks specifically about the trends of the vanishing neighbor & polarization.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

Three levels of human connectivity, and how they are vastly changing in cities today.
Why people are increasingly polarizing themselves within in cities.

Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“Neighbors once greeted each other with cookies when they moved into an area. More recently, individuals tend to avoid eye contact with neighbors and don’t even know their names. This is a day and age of next-door-strangers.”–@timkellernyc
“People used to know each other within cities, and cities felt more like villages. In the urban life today, the village is going away.”–@timkellernyc
“There is an increase in loneliness in cities.”–@timkellernyc
“Polarization occurs when an issue divides people and results in resistance and hostility because of differences.”–@timkellernyc
“People are dividing more often than uniting and coming together.”–@timkellernyc
“When you become a healthy, one another’s, alternate-Kingdom community, the more the gospel you are preaching will come to life and be compelling to those who are far from God.”–@danielsangi

Additional Resources:

Listen to Episode 253: Gentrification & Metropolitanization
Read this post about Cities and Multiculturalism: Two Trends in Church Planting Today
Learn How to Transform a Community
Become a Plus Member and listen to the entire Q&A Webinar with Tim Keller on 5 Trends in Cities and Urban Ministry

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Episode 253: Gentrification & Metropolitanization

Patrick Bradley — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 10:00:35 +0000

by NewChurches.com: The suburbs are becoming urbanized, which means that suburban pastors need to grow in their urban skills.

In Episode 253 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, we wanted to share snippets of Tim Keller’s talk at our last Church Planting Fellowship Network in November 2017 where he shared 5 trends in urban cities. In this episode, Tim talks specifically about the trends of gentrification & metropolitanization.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

Why suburban pastors need to grow in their urban skills.
How church planters should respond to gentrification.

Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“Gentrification often happens because there isn’t enough housing for everyone in cities with rising growth and popularity.”–@timkellernyc
“Most people have mixed feelings about gentrification, but gentrification is not a one-dimensionally negative thing.”–@timkellernyc
“The suburbs are becoming urbanized, which means that suburban pastors need to grow in their urban skills.”–@timkellernyc
“Our cause should ultimately be to plant churches that care for all people.”–@edstetzer
“If you think evangelism is just a presentation or a booklet, then you aren’t urban.”–@timkellernyc
“Being cosmopolitan does not make you theologically aberrant, but it does make you tolerate other views more easily.”–@edstetzer

Additional Resources:

Listen to Episode 236: Rural Church Planting
Read this post about Cities and Multiculturalism: Two Trends in Church Planting Today
Learn How to Transform a Community

Help us Multiply the Mission:

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5 Trends in Cities and Urban Ministry

Patrick Bradley — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:00:20 +0000

By Daniel Im: Timothy Keller is the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan and Chairman of Redeemer City to City. He is a New York Times bestselling author and has sold over 1 million copies of The Reason for God and The Prodigal God. Tim Keller spoke about the 5 Trends in Cities at Church Planting Leadership Fellowship (CPLF) in November 2017.

CPLF is a community of church planting denominational and network leaders from across North America who gather twice a year for collaborative learning. CPLF works to provide church planting leaders with vital support in the form of research, resources, education, and connection with other church planters across North America. Learn more about CPLF here.

Take a look at these summary notes from Keller’s presentation on the five trends below or listen to the entire talk, as well as one on urban ministry skills here.

1. Reurbanization

Reurbanization is occurring because of the fifth migration (the fifth migration means a significant movement back into cities over the last 15 years)
The percentage of millennials wanting to move to cities has vastly increased
Immigrants often flock to cities to cluster with their language groups
Global cities are connected to the rest of the world
- Most growing cities are global cities
- Miami is an example of a growing global city
Reurbanization calls for an increase of church plants within cities

2. Gentrification

Gentrification happens when prices rise in a city, thus pushing out the poorer people
Most people have mixed feelings about gentrification, but gentrification is not a one-dimensionally negative thing
Gentrification often happens because there isn’t enough housing for everyone in cities with rising growth and popularity

3. Metropolitanization

With gentrification, cities are becoming increasingly expensive and poorer people from the cities are being pushed out to the suburbs
The suburbs are becoming urbanized, which means that suburban pastors need to grow in their urban skills

To read about the remaining two trends and hear about urban ministry skills that are now needed for suburban, urban, and also rural pastors, click here for the full talk and post.

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Tweetables:

We should all be experts on church planting.
There is more division in our country than there has ever been.
When demand for space in the city increases, cost increases. Cities are places people want to live but often can’t afford to live.
Nowadays, people moving to the suburbs are doing so because they are being pushed out of the city.
People are moving to metroplexes, and metroplexes are growing in multiethnicity

Source: 5 Trends in Cities and Urban Ministry

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