![\"Stay](\"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/New-Blog-Book-Review-Graphic-76.png\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
This will be a short review, because this is a short book, which is at least in part a bit of a trailer for a longer book by the same authors, which I am now quite excited to read. Gornik and Wong write to Urban Christians – which, bluntly, is probably the majority of Christians in the world today.<\/p>\n
As Tim Keller puts it in the foreword;<\/p>\n
“its companion\u00a0<\/em>volume, ‘Sense the City’, promises to be more practical and concrete, this book ends with time-tested, high-level principles for long-term\u00a0fruitfulness. It points out how seamlessly family life, ministry and\u00a0our work-for-pay go together<\/i>”<\/p>\n Keller is a big proponent of Urban Ministry – and as someone who appreciates a lot of his writing, his foreword piqued my interest. That said, I’ll be recommending this book to friends for far more than that link. Gornik and Wong share a range of stories of Urban Ministry – from across demographic and denominational divides and differences.<\/p>\n It is worth noting that this book is refreshingly clear about who it is\u00a0for<\/em>. This is not an apologetic for or encouragement of Urban Ministry – rather, it is a sharing of stories, and teasing out of some of the principles behind these stories, of what God is doing with his Church in various Urban settings. Here, on my reading, are three reasons to read this book:<\/p>\n Overall, then,\u00a0Stay in the City<\/em> is worth a read. Clocking in around 80 pages, it won’t take up too much of your time, but will provoke your imagination to think again. I’m hoping to get my hands on a copy of\u00a0Sense the City<\/em>, to think a little more about some of the issues raised in this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This will be a short review, because this is a short book, which is at least in part a bit of a trailer for a longer book by the same authors, which I am now quite excited to read. Gornik … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[87,2,406,88,661,44,73,589,453,55],"tags":[763,762,251],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n