Excellent article: "Before 'Transforming' Your Neighborhood, Talk to Your Neighbors" from Christianity Today.
Here is a brief qoute from the article, ".....In the midst of this surprising renewal is Englewood Christian Church, a failed megachurch that spiraled downward with the neighborhood. How is it that our congregation, now about 200, was able to help orchestrate these strains of change? The short answer: We learned to talk to each other. In the 2008 book The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart, journalist Bill Bishop and sociologist Robert Cushing show that Americans live in increasingly homogeneous social circles. In recent decades, geographical sorting has been amplified by the rise of Internet technologies that allow us to pursue conversations with people around the globe who share similar convictions or practices—rather than with our actual neighbors."
Would you be willing to "break-away" for a moment from your current homogeneous social circle to talk to your neighbors?
Read the article here:
http://t.co/JScUpJQG
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