There are churches that are merely in the city. Their heartbeat is to get people in the doors to hear the gospel. That's a good goal. But, unfortunately, that's often where it ends. Such churches create programs for people inside the church walls, and the reach of their ministry only occasionally goes outside to the city. The primary focus of these churches is what happens inside the church building. Churches like this are geographically in the city, but they aren’t effectively engaged with the people and culture of the city.
For the City: Proclaiming and Living Out the Gospel (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2010), p.24.
