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A CHURCH FOR THE CITY: PRESENT REALITIES AND FUTURE CHALLENGES

by Chuck DeGroat & Rachael Butler

"How do you view the city? Terms of derision abound: Crime-ridden. Busy. Scary. Drug-infested. Liberal. Over-crowded. Hopeless. And the caricatures are as old as scripture. It was Cain, the first citybuilder, who killed Abel, the brother who tended the flocks. And there was David, the great warrior in the wilderness who became a great sinner when he moved to the city. And, of course, Jesus was born in a stable, but his via dolorosa was a busy downtown street..."

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