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Pastor Tim Keller of Redeemer, Presbyterian Church preachs at Movement Day 2014 in New York City, Thursday, October 23, 2014.
Pastors and Christian leaders should be unashamed to call out a city for its sin while at the same time working towards peace, said Tim Keller, the lead pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, at the Christian leadership conference called Movement Day.
“We’re supposed to be concerned about the peace of the city,” said Keller to the crowd. He pointed out that every dimension of a city’s existence, including economic and social peace, can only truly be brought by a leader who knows the Word of God.
“Jesus is looking at a city about to kill him and he’s calling out their sin,” said Keller. In the same way, he encouraged local pastors and leaders attendending the annual event in New York City held at the Marriot Marquis hotel on Thursday to call out the city’s sin without gloating or boasting.
Keller explained that by acknowledging that we’re all sinners we have an equal view of one another because none can view themselves as better than anyone else.
“There is nothing more egalitarian and hopeful than telling everybody they’re sinners,” he said.
Christian leaders should be seeking the “shalom,” or peace for their own city regardless of what kind of sin is running rampant, according to Keller.
“Only with the eyes of scripture can you know all that there is about your peace,” he continued.
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SOURCE: The Christian Post
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