Focus on Reproduction, Mentor's Guide, MG12

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F O C U S O N R E P R O D U C T I O N

A. The traits of today’s urban poor neighborhoods: communities of distrust and suspicion

“Everybody’s got a game, and if you don’t watch out, they’ll play it on you!”

1. Broken, disconnected, and disjointed family units

2. Economic underdevelopment

3. Alienation and loneliness

4. Violence and crime

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5. Over crowding and shortage of affordable housing

6. General sense of despair and distrust

B. The challenge of urban cross-cultural church planting

1. The question of the hour: how do we contact people within their own setting with credibility and openness in an environment saturated with distrust, fear, and alienation?

2. The answer: the natural penetration of the Gospel through the oikos of our neighbors

C. The concept of Evangelism and oikos