Bakke.

Elly bought me a book called "A Theology as Big as the City" by Ray Bakke for my birthday. It was on my recommended reading list for San Francisco and she didn't even know it! I'm almost halfway done with it.

"I've concluded that I'm not in the city because the city is a place of great needs, even though it is that. I'm here because God has done a work of grace in my life that compels me to share. It overflows.

Yet there's a sense in which if Christ is with me in the midst of the slum, the neighborhood is a slum no longer. For Christ lives in me, and his kingdom agendas confront the neighborhoods."