Taking It to the Streets: Lessons from a Life of Urban Ministry
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
There's an urgent need for Christian ministry in our cities—but we need a guide.
Known around Oakland, California, as "OG Rev.," Reverend Harry Williams's calling is to the streets: to the hungry, homeless, addicted, incarcerated, and vulnerable. In Taking It to the Streets, he invites us into his world, bringing us face-to-face with both the injustices that plague our cities and the gospel of compassion that offers hope to the downtrodden.
Rev. Williams takes on racism, the plight of children in the inner city, gentrification, urban violence, the prosperity gospel, and more, all from the perspective of someone who understands these phenomena from the inside. Whether we ourselves are from the city or not, we need a deep understanding of its social, political, and spiritual realities if we're to minister effectively. Taking It to the Streets offers firsthand accounts of urban life alongside large-scale considerations of its systemic challenges, all in the context of the life-giving good news of Jesus.
This is the introduction to urban ministry we need. Filled with both sober truths and the hope of Jesus, it will inspire and equip a new generation of ministers to our cities.
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- Takes readers face to face with deep problems that confront people in the inner cities
- Calls Christians to take a stand for those suffering in urban areas
- Speaks out against the apathy that plagues the church and Christians in relation to the reality of life out in the streets
- Step Foot in the Resistance
- The Resistance Is Real: Welcome to My 'Hood
- Children of the Streets: The High Price of Apathy
- Gentrification: What Happens When There's No Direction Home?
- Crossing Cultures: Understanding the World of Urban Ministry
- Death in the Pot: The Story of Racism in America
- True Religion: The Black Church and the Resistance
- Social Justice: Raise-Your-Fist Religion
- The Rise of the Prosperity Gospel: The Scriptural Interpretation That Kills
- Rethinking Urban Ministry: The Reverend Adam Clayton Powell Jr.'s Road to Social Justice Ministry
- Waging Peace: To Be Called God's Child
- Stories from the Streets: Where Do We Belong?
- Proximity: The Last Lesson
Rev. Williams seeks to take his readers beyond the headlines and stereotypes to expose the reality of communities and people who have been neglected and abandoned by society. He tries to educate people on the realities of whole segments of our society who have been demonized and treated as throwaways. He reminds us that the good news of Jesus calls us not only to do the acts of charity that call us to care for our brothers and sisters but to demand justice and transform a society that has become comfortable with leaving brothers and sisters on the side of life's road.
--Michael L. Pfleger, Faith Community of Saint Sabina, Chicago
This book is fire! You will be moved to think and act differently, to meet people where they are, and join the resistance of God's people who refuse to accept injustice and apathy.
--Shawn Casselberry, executive director of Mission Year
Real recognize real. O.G. Rev is a real one that has been serving some of the hardest parts of Oakland. Taking It to the Streets is a wake-up call for the church to go from apathy to compassion. It is filled with helpful insights and solutions for the future of the urban church.
--Tommy "Urban D." Kyllonen, lead pastor, hip-hop artist, author of Rebuild and Love Our City
- Title: Taking It to the Streets: Lessons from a Life of Urban Ministry
- Author: II Harry Louis Williams
- Publisher: IVP
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: California › Oakland; City missions; City missions › California--Oakland
- ISBNs: 9780830872657, 9780830845620, 0830872655, 0830845623
- Resource ID: LLS:9780830872657
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T21:33:28Z