Winning the World

Session 6: Mobilizing American Cities for Church Planting Movements 101

d. Lack of government attention and care: a seriously developed “blame-the-victim” social view in the 80’s and 90’s

3. Rising levels of violence and involvement in the jurisprudential system (i.e., the police, the courts, and the prison systems – heavily weighted on urban needs and issues)

a. Some stats as high as nearly one in three African American homes are touched by involvement in the jurisprudential system

b. More AA men in prison than in college; nearly 600,000 Black men alone in prison today (note: the Center for Disease Control actually recently placed Black men on the endangered list)

4. Abandonment and benign neglect of the church

a. Difficulty of many ethnic churches to reach their own neighbors cross culturally

b. Evangelical church concentration on foreign fields: 10/40 Window

c. Estimations by missions groups that America is basically “reached,” and that scarce dollars and missionaries should be deployed to more needy fields

d. Lack of unity and strategy among the American church to join forces to ignite new movements in American urban poor communities