God's concern for the city Kyle, John E. Additional Author Inter-varsity Student Missions Convention 1987 : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Additional Author mixed material bibliography Illinois InterVarsity Press c1988 monographic en English

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192 p. ; 21 cm. The fundamental difference between the messages of Jesus Christ and Ann Landers is precisely this. Advice requires you to do something to make things work. News declares what God has already done for you in Jesus Christ. We go forth as persons called by a risen Christ to announce good news."-Ray Bakke "I remember one night in particular. I knelt in desperation to the Lord. In fact, I gave the Lord an opportunity to admit he had made a mistake in inviting me to come to the city. But he didn't change his mind. Instead he began to call me to work alongside other Christians who were in the city." Floyd McClung "Tony, are you suggesting that you can't be rich and be a Christian at the same time? I'm not the guy that dreamed up the line that it's harder for rich people to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. That was somebody else"-Tony Campolo "One of the wonderful things about the cross is that it frees us to own up to our badness and not to live in despair over it. To pretend to be innocent in light of the cross is, according to C. S. Lewis, like being a divorcée pretending to be a virgin."-Becky Pippert "We had begun to see the unreached people of the city, visible to God, but too often invisible to us. On our list we put prostitutes, sidewalk vendors, tourists, police, gays. theater people, teenage runaways, bag ladies, the homeless, store owners. We found all sorts of gospel targets and no sharpshooters."-Harvie Conn "There are a thousand things you can do with your life, a thousand ways you can spend it. But how many of them will enable you to say at the end of your life 'no reserve, no retreat, no regrets?"-Billy Graham "How do you know the will of God? First by entering into the heart of God. Bob Pierce, as an evangelist in Korea, said when a child was thrust into his arms, "Let my heart break with the things that break the heart of God Roberta Hestenes City missions Missions Evangelistic work 266.00971320830817115(pbk.) Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 266.0097132 Kyl u E91000302 Non Fiction 266.0097132 Kyl u Urban_mission_God%27s_concern_for_the_city.jpg 17444 1988-02-16 00:00:00 2026-04-07 17:36:23 machine generated