I love to think about and dwell on the influence that world-class cities have on the rest of the world and the awesome potential impact we can have for the Kingdom if we harness that influence through an inside-out strategy. Impacting the city for Christ from the inside and then seeing that Christian influence spread out to the rest of the world through leaders, through universities, and through the transient nature of the cities.
The UN’s latest report shows that the world’s urban population reached 3.2 billion persons in 2005 and is expected to rise to 5 billion persons by 2030. On the other hand, the rural population of the world is expected to decline slightly from 3.3 billion in 2005 to 3.2 billion in 2030. Whereas 30 per cent of the world population lived in urban areas in 1950, the proportion of urban-dwellers rose to 49 per cent by 2005 and half the world population is expected to live in urban areas by 2007. The world’s proportion of urban population is projected to reach 61 per cent in 2030. Global cities of influence will play a major role in shaping the world in the decades to come.
I was recently reading a story about Boston, the bastion of higher learning and the quiet evangelical revival that is slowly gaining steam there. Isn’t big-city urban evangelism the hardest and the best? Yea God.
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