One is not apart from the other. One depends on the other. And if one part of the body suffers, then we all suffer. Whether we like it or not the United States is urban. We cannot escape it.
Similar statistics hold true for the rest of the world.
There is absolutely no escaping the fact that if we want to be effective in ministry for the years to come we must have an understanding of the urban context that surrounds us. We live and will live in an urban world. Number 5 Because urban ministry is no longer just a set of inner city issues, but rather a global process and a large metropolitan phenomena it means churches working alone, or pastors acting as lone rangers can no longer cut it. It is a webbed, connected system. And to work in this culture we must be webbed and connected too.