Tim Keller on Church- Part 2

A few more thoughts from Keller's book on church:

• Because young adults are particularly sensitive to injustice, it is possible and necessary to show them that human rights and justice make far more sense in a world made by God than in a world that is not made by God.  My own thoughts- this completely makes sense.  Instead of Christians arguing for creation against evolution, we ought to instead be arguing for God's creation of the world (and that could include pieces from a creationist perspective and an evolutionary perspective) against perspectives that have no room for God.  Issues such as civil rights, care of the environment, sex trafficking, and so many more issues only make sense in a worldview with a Creator.  If our world is purely evolutionary and survival of the fittest without a Creator, then issues of justice are mute. 
• In the end, Christians live not to increase the prosperity of our own tribe and group through power plays and coercion but to serve the good of all the people of the city (regardless of what beliefs others hold).
• A missional church will be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of compassion and social justice than traditional fundamentalist churches and more deeply and practically committed to evangelism and conversion than traditional liberal churches.  This kind of church is profoundly counterintuitive to American observers, who are no longer able to categorize it as liberal or conservative.  Only this kind of church has any chance in the non-Christian West.
• Effective churches will be so involved in deeds of mercy and justice that outsiders will say “we cannot do without churches like this.  This church is channeling so much value into our community that it if were to leave the neighborhood, we would have to raise taxes”.