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    Darrell Guder
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    In North America, what might it mean for the church to be such a city on a hill? to be salt? to be a light to the world? It means, first of all, that the inner, communal life of the church matters for...

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    Donna Barber
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    Jesus penned his protest sign in dirt at the feet of an adulterous woman. He inspired men to climb trees so they could see over the crowds. He disrupted many parties and vandalized the temple. He publ...

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    Helen Keller
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    Matthew 13:13, Matthew 13:1-23, Isaiah 6:9-10, John 9:39-41, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Ephesians 1:18
    I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light, but who see nothing in wood, sea, or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books.... It were better far to sail forever in the night of blind...

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    Meredith G. Kline
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    The city is not to be regarded as an evil invention of ungodly fallen man... The ultimate goal set before humanity at the very beginning was that human- culture should take city-form... there should b...

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    Harvie M. Conn and Manuel Ortiz
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    The city is the fulfillment of the purposes of the Eden of God. The city is the fulfiller of the paradise of God... which is tied to the future city with the original, sinless past of Eden and its res...

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    Leonardo de Chirico
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    [There] are social idols that capture the life of the city…overarching sinful narratives on which people rely. We have to exegete them. We have to spot them out. We have to capture their core values, ...

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    Bill Crispin
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    The city is the place where there are more people...and since] God loves people… [few can be assured that] He loves the city.

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    Rodney Stark
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    To cities filled with the homeless and impoverished, Christianity offered charity as well as hope. To cities filled with newcomers and strangers, Christianity offered an immediate basis for attachment...

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    Rodney Stark
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    To cities filled with the homeless and impoverished, Christianity offered charity as well as hope. To cities filled with newcomers and strangers, Christianity offered an immediate basis for attachment...

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    Jane Jacobs
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    Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

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    Matt Carter and Darrin Patrick
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    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 churc...

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    Kyungsig Samuel Lee
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    The ultimate challenge of Jesus' ministry was to go to the city, the city of Jerusalem. This city, which was the center of education, religion, and politics, was also the place where corruption an...

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    Edward Glaeser
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    Cities aren’t full of poor people because cities make people poor, but because cities attract poor people with the prospect of improving their lot in life. [Thereofre] we should worry more about place...

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    Edward Glaeser
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    Our cities’ gleaming spires point to the greatness that mankind can achieve, but also to our hubris.... Urban innovation can destroy value as well as create it.

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    Louise Beal
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    Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood. *for contrast

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    Dictionary of Biblical Imagery
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    Acts 8:1-4, Acts 9:1-19, Romans 15:19-20, Acts 17:16-17, Acts 17:1-4
    The world that we enter in the book of Acts is the most modern in all the Bible by virtue of its urban identity. Most of the action occurs in the famous cities of the Greco-Roman world, not in the loc...

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    All earthly cities are vulnerable. Men build them and men destroy them. At the same time there is the City of God which men did not build and cannot destroy and which is everlasting.

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    Philip Bess
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    There's a reciprocal relationship between good cities and human flourishing. Good cities make it possible for us to live better than if we lived without cities. Nevertheless, even the best city ca...

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    Timothy Keller
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    The New Jerusalem… is the Garden of Eden, remade. The City is the fulfilment of the purposes of the Eden of God. We began in a garden but will end in a city; God's purpose for humanity is urban! “...

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    Edward Glaeser
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    Cities are the absence of physical space between people…They are proximity, density, closeness.

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    Don Everts
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    Even Christians living through a hostile season are called to stand with their neighbors and become zealous for the common good.

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    Harvie M. Conn and Manuel Ortiz
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    Matthew 5:25, Matthew 23:7, Mark 5:56, Matthew 25:27, Luke 19:23, Mark 12:1-12, Matthew 8:5, Matthew 9:10, Luke 5:27
    One could not live in any village in lower Galilee and escape the effects and ramifications of urbanization.” Life here was urbanized and urbane as anywhere else in the Empire. Did these urban influen...

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    Frederick Dale Bruner
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    Matthew 1:null
    The Sermon on the Mount is, spiritually speaking, actually the sermon from the valley. It starts low. It starts with those who feel very unlike mountains!

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    Dr. Seuss
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    I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights."

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    Jake Meador
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    Christians are unique citizens in society because, formed by the “upside-down” kingdom of God, they move out into the world as self-sacrificers rather than self-actualizers.

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    Margaret Mead
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    Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    He who loves his dream of community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.

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    Al Barth
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    [People in cities] turn to false gods, such as power, fame, possessions, privilege, and comfort.

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    Eric O. Jacobsen
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    It might be more accurate to say that the fear of cities, or the fear of of one another, or possibly the love of convenience has been the actual basis of much of our current perceptions about the city...

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    Frederick Dale Bruner
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    Matthew 5:10, Philippians 2:8-9, Luke 6:20, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Psalm 37:11, James 4:10
    The Sermon on the Mount is, spiritually speaking, actually the sermon from the valley. It starts low. It starts with those who feel very unlike mountains!
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