{"id":722,"date":"2007-03-15T12:50:57","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T19:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/2007-03\/15\/transforming-cities-with-the-gospel\/"},"modified":"2007-03-15T12:50:57","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T19:50:57","slug":"transforming-cities-with-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/church\/transforming-cities-with-the-gospel\/","title":{"rendered":"Transforming Cities with the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of talk among churches as being &#039;relevant&#039;.&nbsp; I urge you to go beyond being &#039;relevant to our culture&#039; to seeking to transform the city you live in.&nbsp;&nbsp; At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleochurch.com\/\">Kaleo Church<\/a>  we see the gospel story as a salvational message, means for ongoing grace renewal by God and the announcement of God&#039;s Kingdom on earth.&nbsp; We must see the good news as a call to bring shalom in our cities and be a city within a city that is a foretaste of the eternal Kingdom to come.&nbsp;&nbsp; Here are a few resources that have been suggested to us:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMissional-Leader-Equipping-Changing-Leadership%2Fdp%2F078798325X&amp;tag=kaleochurch-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">The Missional Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach a Changing World <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=kaleochurch-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLive-Peace-Biblical-Faith-Changing%2Fdp%2F0802846858%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1173986814%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=kaleochurch-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">To Live in Peace: Biblical Faith and the Changing Inner City<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=kaleochurch-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shop5.gospelcom.net\/epages\/FaithAlive.storefront\/EN\/product\/800620#full\">Communities First<\/a>  (including a theology of development)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mike-green.org\/wkshop\/a_assetbasedcommunitydevelopment_mike.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Asset           Based Community Development<\/a> (pdf)&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mike-green.org\/index.php\">ABCD Institute website<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of talk among churches as being &#039;relevant&#039;.&nbsp; I urge you to go beyond being &#039;relevant to our culture&#039; to seeking to transform the city you live in.&nbsp;&nbsp; At Kaleo Church we see the gospel story as a salvational message, means for ongoing grace renewal by God and the announcement of God&#039;s Kingdom on earth.&nbsp; We must see the good news as a call to bring shalom in our cities and be a city within a city that is a foretaste of the eternal Kingdom to come.&nbsp;&nbsp; Here are a few resources that have been suggested to us:&nbsp; The Missional Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach a Changing World To Live in Peace: Biblical Faith and the Changing Inner City Communities First (including a theology of development)&nbsp; Asset Based Community Development (pdf)&nbsp; ABCD Institute website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}