[TogetherLA] Tim Keller: How Do We Love the City Through Social Change

um I'm Tim Keller I'm back to give you the second of three talks we are uh doing here or I'm doing here on the subject of how do you love uh how do you serve how do you reach a city and we're doing it by uh breaking you might say breaking the answers down into three we

do it by being the church in the City by being the church in society by being the church in the culture we're looking at the urban implications last night the social implications right now and the cultural implications of the gospel and right now we're going to look at what are the social implications of the Gospel um if

Christians were living out their faith in society not just here inside the walls of the church but if Christians were living there uh their lives out uh in society how would it change society what would the um what would that look like well somebody might say well would there be any social implications if Christians were just

being Christians out in the world wouldn't that mean there'd be they'd be sharing their faith and more people would be coming going to heaven uh but it wouldn't change society would it yes it would I'd like to make the case first of all that there are massive social implications to the gospel that if

Christians were living out that Christianity when it comes into a society has massive social implications it changes the way Society works but then secondly I'd like to look at five areas that I think today if we were living out our faith um we would five places where we would see change in society five places in which the gospel

would would make U make a major difference in society so like I said first of all let me make the case that the gospel has massive social implications and I'm going to do this in a way I think it's going to surprise some of you um I don't want to just go back a