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C. City and Village

Overview. A. Getting Acquainted. B. Worship. C. City and Village. D. The Great Migration. E. Babylon and Jerusalem. A. Getting Acquainted. 1. What is your name? 2. Where is you current job? 3. What do you like or don’t like about the city?. B. Worship. Singing For God so Loved the City

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C. City and Village

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  1. Overview A. Getting Acquainted B. Worship C. City and Village D. The Great Migration E. Babylon and Jerusalem

  2. A. Getting Acquainted 1. What is your name? 2. Where is you current job? 3. What do you like or don’t like about the city?

  3. B. Worship Singing For God so Loved the City Praying Form groups and schedule worship

  4. C. City and Village Get in your groups Images of the City Images of the Village Change Stable Big Small

  5. D. The Great Migration 200 years ago 3% lived in cities 100 years ago 15% lived in cities Today 55% live in cities Moyer: “God So Loves the City!” page 206 in Adventist Mission, Jon Dybdahl, ed.

  6. D. The Great Migration Where do your grandparents live? Where do your parents live? Where do you live?

  7. D. The Great Migration In 1940 the biggest cities were in the Western world. Today they are in Asia, Mexico and South America. Name cities in Asia that have few Christians: Moyer: “God So Loves the City!” page 206 in Adventist Mission, Jon Dybdahl, ed.

  8. D. The Great Migration In the 1980s 1 billion people or 20% of the human population moved from the country to the city. Roger Greenway ed. Discipling the City, page 41

  9. D. The Great Migration 321 Cities of 1 Million or more Tokyo 33.8M Mexico City 22.0M New York 21.8M Seoul 21.8M Sao Paulo 19.8M Bombay 18.5M Delhi 18.5M Los Angeles 17.6M Osaka 16.7M Jakarta 16.5M Moscow 15.4M Calcutta 15.1M Cairo 15.0M Manila 14.3M Karachi 13.4M Hong Kong 13.2M http://www.citypopulation.de/World.html, accessed June 7, 2004. Figures compiled 5-22-04

  10. D. The Great Migration List 10 ways the city influences the countryside. Manila

  11. D. The Great Migration The last 100 years has seen the greatest migration in history. If people are moving to the city then the church must move there too.

  12. D. The Great Migration 2005 General Conference—”Hope for Big Cities” North America: Montreal Southern Africa: Johannesburg Trans-Europe: London Euro-Asia: Moscow; Southern Asia: Bangkok South Pacific: Sydney East Central Africa: Bujumbura, Addis Adaba, Kinshasa South America: Buenos Aires North Asia Pacific: Kaoshiong, Shinjuku, Suwon Western Africa, N’djamena Inter-America: Mexico City Euro-Africa: Madrid, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Bucharest, Sophia, others

  13. E. Babylon and Jerusalem The Old Testament: The word “city” appears 1092 times Most important for defense Centers of military strength

  14. E. Babylon and Jerusalem Cities in Genesis: Genesis 4:17 Cain built the first city. Genesis 10:8-10—Nimrod built Babel. Genesis 14—Sodom and Gomorrah

  15. E. Babylon and Jerusalem The City in the New Testament City appears 160 times Politicalmore than defense Centers of missionary activity

  16. E. Babylon and Jerusalem The Tower of Babel Technology: the brick Gather in order to control God scatters them

  17. E. Babylon and Jerusalem Nimrod builds Babel Abram builds Altar Noah builds Altar After discussing the diagram, how important is it for a pastor to build an altar of devotion in the city?

  18. E. Babylon and Jerusalem The City of Babylon Conquers Jerusalem in 605 BC Modern Iraq Wicked church of Revelation

  19. E. Babylon and Jerusalem Babylon and Jerusalem Babylon Surrounds Satan Surrounds New Jerusalem Jerusalem Daniel 1:1-2 Revelation 20:7-9

  20. E. Babylon and Jerusalem The City of Jerusalem—OT Abraham, Melchizedek, Mt. Moriah David conquers Jerusalem in 1000 BC The “gathering” and “scattering”

  21. E. Babylon and Jerusalem The City of Jerusalem—NT Jesus as the Living Temple Destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 The New Jerusalem

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