Navigating Ministry in a Transient City

Jon Tyson, founding and senior pastor of Church of the City in New York, joins me to talk about the urban church in today's world. Tyson discusses:

• How to deal with the constant population churn in the city?
• The differences between pre-Covid and post-Covid New York
• How Covid wiped out 70% of what Tim Keller and others built over the previous 35 years in terms of New York City church plants
• The flow of church planters into New York drying up
• What's unique about Generation Z? Includes that they don't want to plant churches.
• Why New York is not as different from the rest of the country culturally as it used to be.
• The impact of the migrant influx on Manhattan
• The future of the cultural engagement model of church
• What he thinks of Trumpist culture war Christianity
• How he talks about flashpoint cultural issues
• Advice for church planters thinking about New York City.

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