Let me lay out the premise. People (college kids, families with small children, etc) want to live the Gospel out and not just speak it out. Which by the way was the combo the Bible teaches. To just speak is usually unbalanced fundamentalism. To just 'live it' usually degenerates into a social Gospel. To use Tim Keller's unoriginal phrase, "it's about word and deed."
Back to the point, these New Friars are going into inner city slums and even international garbage cities, to live as one of the communities. They live in the same squalor, at the same financial level, truly as one of them (kind of sounds what Jesus did. 'He who was rich became poor for our sakes.'
The challenge I find isn't to go live in a slum, under a bridge or garbage city. Rather it is to truly live so I can genuinely connect to people. Whether the place God places me is suburb, slum or city.
Here's the book. You can get it at the local library.
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