Looking at Christ

David Kim of London City Mission shares some of his research showing why any strategy for church planting in London needs to take into account the rising demographic, economic and missionary power of Asia and Africa. People power and urban dominance “According to the  World Heritage Centre , by 2020 the urban population of Asia will be around 2.5 billion, having doubled in twenty-five years. By then more than half of the urban areas of the planet will be in Asia, and those urban areas alone will contain over one-third of the world’s population. The same organization predicts that the cities of Asia will be growing twice as fast as cities in the rest of the world.” ( Glen Smith, Lausanne ) Just as striking are the figures on Africa which is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent: 1.2 billion people and 54 countries. Africa's average population is the youngest amongst all the continents (with advantages of quicker learning and greater cultural adaptab...

Loved this sermon from Tope Koleoso at the Nations in the City conference a few months ago. "We need to go Beyond integration... to acceptance Beyond toleration... to love Beyond political correctness and native culture and demanding perfection of expression... to kingdom culture and hearts of grace and making every effort Because that’s what Christ died for. "So my approach is this: preach Christ in the morning, in the afternoon and at night time because he alone is able to reconcile all people to himself."