Cristian Life, Rethinking Ministry to the Poor

"When our culture traded front-porch neighborhood life for private backyards patios, when we succumbed to the seduction of individualism and lost touch with our next door neighbors, a void was created in the spirit of our people that chat rooms cannot fill. The commuting church with its scattered members buzzing in and out of the neighborhood, is one more troubling reminder of what we have lost. A community starved society, by its protests, is calling the Church back to its historic mandate: to be the exemplar within the community of both love of god and love of neighbor." - Paul Lupton