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JON TYSON: Urban Church in the Negative World

JON TYSON: Urban Church in the Negative World

Update: 2024-08-26
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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.

Visit Church of the City: https://www.church.nyc/

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JON TYSON: Urban Church in the Negative World

JON TYSON: Urban Church in the Negative World

Aaron Renn