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KELLER ON PREACHING IN A POST-MODERN CITY
Part I
Tim Keller looks at principles of communicating the Gospel in the City

Some claim that to constantly be striking a 'note of grace, grace, grace' in our sermons is not helpful in our culture today. The objection goes like this: "Surely Phariseeism and moralism is not a problem in our culture today. Rather, our problem is license and antinomianism. People lack a sense of right or wrong. It is 'carrying coal to Newcastle' to talk about grace all the time to post-modern people. But I don't believe that is the case. Unless you point to the 'good news' of grace the people won't even be able to bear the 'bad news' of God's judgment. > MORE

HOW TO GATHERED THE FIRST 100 PEOPLE TO MY CHURCH
And what Stephen Ro would do if he could do it over again.

The success of a church really can't be determined by only measuring attendance. But getting the first 100 people to come to our worship service was very critical to the future "success" of our church. At Living Faith Community Church, (LFCC), we started out with around 40 attendees at our first service, and it took a couple of years for us to reach the "100-person" mark. When that happened, I really started to sense our function as a community... > MORE

IT'S BEEN A LONG, STRANGE, GRACE-FULL TRIP
By Andrew Jones, Church Planter, Grace Church, Hackney

We decided to go liturgical since the words often have more literary and theological resonance than some of our extemporary efforts. This is important to people for whom words matter. However, we do not wear vestments of any kind - itÕs strictly urban street wear up front! No suits, ties, no neat sweaters! There is a strong element of anti-clericalism in England so we try and get away from the stereotypical image people have of a dog-collared 'vicar'. > MORE

READY? ASSESSING CHURCH PLANTING CANDIDATES
How the RCPC community examines the gifts of some of their own

Although self-evaluation is important in understanding one's call, much can be learned by the objective evaluation of experienced church planters. This is what church planters call Assessment. Here, J. Allen Thompson, Director of the International Church Planting Center and consultant to RCPC, offers a word of caution: "Assessments deal only with selection and placement of church planters. This is only the beginning step.> MORE

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