23^rd March 2008

ACCatalyst March 2008 now out. Click here or on photo to download.

All impurity or lack of created wholeness will be cast our of the city of God. Allow me to use an imperfect analogy to illustrate. The first time I went to Times Square New York with my wife in the early 1980’s, it was known aptly as Hell’s Bedroom. It was full of prostitutes and intimidating pimps. We were scared and got out of there ASAP, not even going to Broadway. The second time we went, with teenage kids, was 1997. The transformation was astonishing. The city centre had been cleaned up, we felt safe walking the streets at night with the children and had a wonderful time. This is a vision of what could happen if we sought seriously to transform our cities into analogues of the city of God. But to do so Christians will need to challenge the public boardrooms as well as the private bedrooms of our culture – to challenge the whole commodification of sex and persons in the light of a comprehensive vision of city of God.