Cultural Engagement in Urban Ministry

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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