Life in the City:

Cards For Conversations

Inspired by Isaiah 65, Life in the City is a conversational resource designed to give churches, individuals, and groups working for the well-being of their cities an insightful way to connect with others. It gauges people’s spiritual temperature, opens doors for spiritual conversation, connects people to service opportunities, and gathers valuable research on what people desire from their city and what issues they most acutely feel.

An online version of Life in the City can be found here.

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Overview

Nowhere do we face the world’s evil and brokenness more than in our cities. Issues like poverty, crime, addiction, and injustice are magnified, laid bare for all to see. Yet within our cities we can see the best of humanity as well. Many people and organizations, Christian and otherwise, are working to counter the destruction and brokenness and create flourishing life. All this good work flows from the sense that things are not as they should be, and from a longing for justice, peace, hope, meaning, empowerment, and more. The Bible’s idea of shalom captures these longings in a single word, and hints that what we all truly long for is this shalom in the kingdom of God.

Life in the City was created by staff from Cru’s US Church Movements ministry as a way to connect to these longings and to the God who alone can fulfill them. The simple questionnaire uses thoughtfully designed “word pictures” to invite people to share what they most long for in their city and what issues most hinder their city from becoming that type of place. It then invites them to consider a passage from Isaiah 65, which shows that God’s desire and design is for cities to be the places of goodness and shalom we long for. His coming heavenly kingdom promises to bring this in full, and his Word indicates that we have a role to play in allowing his kingdom to come and his will to be done, at least in part, in our earthly cities.

Life in the City is great for churches and nonprofit organizations aimed at the well-being of their cities. It opens the door for meaningful dialogue, spiritual conversation, and inviting people to be involved in their vital work, all while gathering insightful information that can help them understand their city and its needs more fully.

About the author

Dave Robinson

Dave Robinson is the Executive Director of US Church Movements for Cru®. Church Movements is dedicated to partner with churches and like-minded organizations to make Jesus known, multiply the church, and serve the city. He is the author of Unwavering Resolve - A Guide for Apostolic Leadership which equips the missionary and church planting leader to face our current challenges and prepare a new generation of leaders for the future of the church. Dave has served in a variety of leadership roles in Eastern Europe/Russia and the United States with Campus Crusade for Christ International® (Cru), as well as with several denominations and church planting movements. He and his team founded “Youth at the Threshold of Life” (YTL)—an educational movement that began in Hungary and spread to over 62 nations. YTL  spreads the gospel and multiplies the church through community engagement.

Unwavering Resolve - A Guide for Apostolic Leadership can be ordered here!

Details

  • Type:

    Playing card style cards with glossy finish

  • # of pages:

    54 cards

  • Dimensions:

    Standard playing card size

  • Type of paper:

    Playing card style cards with glossy finish

  • ISBN:

    978-1-57334-258-2

  • Cru Ministry:

    Cru City Church Movements

Reviews

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Floyd VanDeburgh
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4/5

Seems like a good conversation opener in the right situation. Kind of hard to understand how to use the cards.

13 hours ago
Dave Robinson
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5/5

I love the explorer / evangelism tool. It’s so relevant and helps us connect in meaningful was to the city/community and people who want to live it! Thank you for the great service - web page, delivery was quick!

7 days ago