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John Fuder
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Neighborhood Mapping: How to Make Your Church Invaluable to the Community
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2014
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4 editions
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A Heart for the Community: New Models for Urban and Suburban Ministry
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2009
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8 editions
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A Heart for the City: Effective Ministries to the Urban Community
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2000
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5 editions
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Training Students for Urban Ministry: An Experiential Approach
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2001
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2 editions
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Chicago Neighborhood Prayer Guide: Seeking God's Peace For the City
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2014
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3 editions
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“CORE VALUES FOR MULTI-ETHNIC MINISTRY What were the foundational pillars upon which we stood? The gospel, not marketing, is the power of God unto salvation (Rom. 1:16). No matter what their color or culture, people are the same in their basic human need for grace, forgiveness, purpose, and hope (Jer. 17:9; Rom. 3:23). Every community with ethnic diversity needs at least one church that seeks to declare and model to its nonbelieving neighbors that we are one in Christ at the foot of the cross (Rev. 7:9-12). The rich need the poor more than the poor need the rich (Luke 6:20–23). Revivals begin in have-not communities more often than in have communities (1 Cor. 1:26). A church that showed the world great diversity coupled with great love for one another would bring great glory to God and great joy to the world (John 13:35). We wanted to become that church.”
― A Heart for the Community: New Models for Urban and Suburban Ministry
― A Heart for the Community: New Models for Urban and Suburban Ministry
“I truly believe that if we are to have any voice in the community we need to first love the community. We need to show them that we care.”
― A Heart for the Community: New Models for Urban and Suburban Ministry
― A Heart for the Community: New Models for Urban and Suburban Ministry
“Protestants use a different vocabulary to describe the continuously needed restoring and refreshing in the church. Our two favorite words are “reform,” indicating the kind of reformation of faith and life according to Scripture which took place in the sixteenth century, and “revival,” denoting an altogether supernatural visitation of a church or community by God, bringing conviction, repentance, confession, the conversion of sinners and the recovery of backsliders. “Reformation” usually stresses the power of the Word of God, and “revival” the power of the Spirit of God, in his work of restoring the church. Perhaps we should keep the word “renewal” to describe a movement which combines revival by God’s Spirit with reformation by his Word. Since the Word is the Spirit’s sword, there is bound to be something lopsided about contemplating either without the other.14”
― A Heart for the Community: New Models for Urban and Suburban Ministry
― A Heart for the Community: New Models for Urban and Suburban Ministry
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