Podcast for Urban Christians

I just listed to a Fermi Project (with which George Barna has some connection) Podcast. #29 Jon Tyson. Had some solid words about the church in an urban environment. I especially resonated with this...

"I don't think Paul had that clear of a strategic an idea of what he was doing. ... He knew he was going to have some level of influence [but] I don't think he had a grand idea of how to do it. I don't think he sat down and said, 'Let's map out all the larger cities in the world and move to them becasue this is where culture is formed.'

"It seems like the Spirit led him. He's wandering around listening. 'Where's God moving? What's God doing next?' The Spirit leads him, he goes to a place. And I think it developed over time like that.

"I get a little cautious when people are only purely strategic... We are famous in the chuch for building skeletons and trying to bring them to life. And I'd rather find out where God is moving, where the Spirit is leading."

Get it on iTunes. Here's the iTunes description of the podcast.

This episode features Jon Tyson, a church planter in the heart of Manhattan and a part of the Origins Movement - a church planting movement committed to multiplying missional communities in the major urban influential centers of the world.