Let God Arise!

PREFACE

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We need the Lord, we need his grace, and we cannot win without his intervention in our lives.

The needs and challenges of the hour in urban mission underscore the truthfulness of the conviction God gave me so vividly so many months ago. I wrote this original tract out of a sense of neediness, of a profound inner sense that all of the work that we would seek to accom- plish for the Lord in the city would be utterly futile if the Lord failed “to show up and show out” in the mean streets of American ghettos. The crime, the broken homes, the economic blight, and the spiritual darkness continue to settle over thousands of communities, none of which has ever seen or heard of the triumphant victory our Lord Jesus Christ won for them in his in- carnation, death, resurrection, and ascension. Millions of people continue to languish under the gray skies of the devil’s lies and tyranny, existing without hope and without God in their lives, struggling to find meaning, and living on the borders of self-loathing and despair. With untold thousands of communities under the sway of the enemy, how can we possibly see the Lord’s light pierce through the darkness that enshrouds them today? This booklet was my heartfelt answer to this question. A group of us came to the conclusion that only a God could save the cities of the world. No church efforts,