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Ecosystems of Jubilee: Economic Ethics for the Neighborhood

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Seeing Jesus in East Harlem: What Happens When Churches Show Up and Stay Put

by José Humphreys

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Guesnerth Perea said: " Pastor Jose’s book, Seeing Jesus in East Harlem: What Happens When Churches Show Up and Stay Put, is a beautiful book that tells the stories of what once was a church-plant, Metro Hope church, and how that church has remained visible, vibrant and vit Pastor Jose’s book, Seeing Jesus in East Harlem: What Happens When Churches Show Up and Stay Put, is a beautiful book that tells the stories of what once was a church-plant, Metro Hope church, and how that church has remained visible, vibrant and vital in East Harlem and in New York City. By weaving first and third person narratives, Pastor Jose Humphreys tells a rewarding story of faith, discipleship, calling and mission.

Pastor Jose’s book is divided in three sections, or markers, as Jose writes in the introduction and these markers are rooted in long-standing spiritual practices of the Church. Part 1 - “Show Up” weaves stories of witnessing, vocation and embodiment and really lays a strong foundation for how “Showing Up” looks in the real world when there is an intentionality connected to it. Chapter 4, Naming Whiteness, tells a beautiful story of Metro Hope’s intentionality to be an inclusive space that named privilege yet built deep connections with all members of the congregation. Part 2 - “Stay Put” tells beautiful stories of how a commitment to permanence in East Harlem continues to lead Metro Hope to stay public, stay visible and stay together. Part 3 - “See” wraps up Pastor Jose’s theology that witnessing / discipleship should lead to and sow patience and that patience comes to fruition when we see what God wants to do even if that is, how Pastor Jose puts it, being de-centered and having to see church, and therefore people, from a different vantage point.

Church planting has become such a fad within urban, cosmopolitan Christianity that the ideas of permanence, stability and constancy are ignored as powerful testimonial spiritual disciplines. Seeing Jesus in East Harlem: What Happens When Churches Show Up and Stay Put, tells the story of a mindful commitment by Jose and his family and a church, Metro Hope, to “seek the shalom of the city,” more specifically East Harlem, and stay put as they believed in the vision and mission God had placed in their hearts and are seeing it through even now.

Pastor Jose’s stories, personal narratives, and mindful cultural analyses, tell beautiful stories and lead us to answer the call Pastor Jose places in the introduction when he writes “Today’s world requires a deeper discipleship for the glory of God and the good of our global family. Not only for our own sake, but for the sake of future generations who will eventually show up for God’s invitation.” For me, the story of Seeing Jesus in East Harlem is a story that challenges me to be more intentional with my discipleship, I pray it will challenge you as well! ...more "

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