Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

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4. It is through seeing Christian community that a lonely world sees and comes to know “Jesus Christ in you, the hope of glory”! Teams of urban church planters, living in community and practicing the Christian life together, become both the foundation of the emerging church, and beyond that, the foretaste of the universal Church gathered both here and someday before the throne of Almighty God!

Acts 2.47 – And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

The church plant team becomes the first glimpse for many into kingdom life! A team in community and in unity, whether in joyful celebration or standing in struggle, offers the loneliest of people a family to belong to.