The SIAFU Guidebook

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call to do anyone any harm; rather, it is a call to represent Christ and his kingdom, a call to love God and to love others. (Rom. 13.8-10 – Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. [9] For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” [10] Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.) This book is a testament to Fred and to all those who still believe that we gain the next world by losing this one (1 Tim. 6.7), and who think that to love this life is to lose it, and to hate this life is to keep the promise of the life to come (John 12.25). If you are interested in learning how you can practically advance the Kingdom where you live, with others just like you in the neighborhood where you live, read on. By standing together as one for the sake of the Kingdom in the city, we can prove decisively in our own lives that you truly become the greatest by being the servant of all (Mark 10.42-45). Only God can raise up a generation among the least lovely and most unlikely to transform our neighborhoods for Christ. May it ever be! So, please, continue to read on, dear friend, and join this amazing movement of the Lord that recognizes and responds to the calling forth of an army of urban disciples to take our cities for God!

Don L. Davis April 1, 2013