City Survival Skills

IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE !

• Live Simply
• Say no to bulky furniture
• Fall in love with space optimization, make it your new hobby
• Don't stay in your appartement at night, go where the people are
• Eat what the natives eat, sleep like they sleep, play like they play
• Know your stress busters, USE your stress busters
• Set smart limits
• Your home needs to be a refuge from the storm
• Spend time with your target group
• Give generous amounts of time to priorities
• Say NO
• Love
• Family time is sacred
• SABBATH
• Get out of the city from time to time
• Shop like your neighbors, every neighborhood functions differently
• Stay faithful to your personal sense of justice, do community service
• Practice "l'art de vivre," make living well an art

BE THE CHURCH

• Read large quantities of scriptures
• Church exists first in your dream
• Cast a vision of what it will be even while it is still developing
• Plan more ministry than you can handle
• Half of the events will be canceled anyway
• Those events that do happen will be attended only 1/2 of the time by 1/2 of the people
• Cooperation, ministry exchange and prayer with others
• Legitimacy is built through networking
• Work toward reaching critical mass
• Live spiritual family wherever you're at, with whomever you have
• Live on the same block as your core group and team, or at least close enough to drop by and borrow a cup of flour
• The most effective church building strategy is to personally live a good life - 1 Peter 2-3

KNOW YOUR CITY

• Transience is a reality. Have a plan. Deal with it.
• You may save money living further away, but you will pay the price with your time and emotions if you have a long commute. Travel time is just as emotionally draining as work. Plan to do less.
• The purpose of intellectual debate in society is to attack, promote cynicism, cut down, and pulverize the opponent. Don't waste time. Preach Jesus.
• The Space-Time Continuum - Public space is everyone's private space. Everything is available at all hours, nobody has any time to get together.