Tim Keller writes on what makes a movement, and how movements can resist becoming institutions. Defining a movement A movement is marked by an attractive, clear, unifying vision for the future together with a strong set of values or beliefs. The content of the vision must be compelling and clear so that others can grasp [...]
Tag Archives: Tim Keller
Hope for the city
6 September, 2008 – 4:21 AM
I stumbled on Hope for New York recently. I’m already a big fan of what Tim Keller and the people at Redeemer Presbyterian have been doing to mobilize the whole body of Christ to plant “gospel-centred” churches throughout New York. Looks like they’re also behind this initiative to mobilize people and resources to serve the [...]
A new kind of gospel?
4 August, 2008 – 9:33 PM
Dynamic movements are committed to a cause. But what if you’re not sure what that cause is any more? Tim Keller writes: A generation ago, it would have been hard to imagine evangelicals unable to agree on what the simple gospel is: 1) God made you and you must have a relationship with him, 2) [...]
Reaching the world’s great cities
31 May, 2008 – 3:52 PM
I didn’t make the Exponential conference this year. But Dave Ferguson did. Here’s his summary of Redeemer’s strategy for international church planting. 1. Target key international cities. Tim Keller believes that the key cities in the world today are New York, London, Hong Kong. However, he said that Hong Kong will soon be replaced in [...]
Believe it or not: Dancing Presbyterians, Islamic Welshmen and good news from New York. . .
17 March, 2008 – 1:48 PM
Ghana has a Presbyterian church of up to a million people thanks to the work done by some Moravian missionaries in the 1820s. Since then they have made a great contribution to the life of the nation and now they are planting churches in Australia and in other parts of the world. Apparently Ghanaians like [...]
How Christianity became an urban movement and conquered Rome
18 December, 2006 – 11:16 PM
Rodney Stark has been crunching the numbers on the spread of the Christian movement in its first century. He has examined data from 31 Roman cities that had populations of at least 30,000. Here are his findings on the spread of the Christian congregations. 1. Port cities tended to have Christian congregations sooner than inland [...]
Tim Keller ruins debate and ruins me
10 August, 2006 – 9:42 PM
We’re in trouble. Tim Keller has done an outstanding job of clearing up the whole justice vs evangelism thing. Drop in on the Reform and Resurge conference and download theses audio files: Preaching the Gospel Doing Justice Or subscribe to the Resurgence podcast. You’re after sessions 7 & 8. Take the time to listen and [...]
Miracle in New York
27 February, 2006 – 3:37 PM
It has to be a work of God when an “orthodox” Presbyterian helps the Pentecostal Assemblies of God plant a church in his own city! The New York Times has just run a story on Tim Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian: Preaching the Word and Quoting the Voice Over the last 16 years, Dr. Keller’s church, [...]
