TMCP 127: David Fitch on the Importance of Faithful Presence
How do you impact the lives of those in your local community? This episode will give you some ideas!
David E. Fitch (PhD, Northwestern University) is the B. R. Lindner Chair of Evangelical Theology at Northern Seminary. He is also the founding pastor of Life on the Vine Christian Community, a missional church in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. He is the author of Faithful Presence, The Great Giveaway and The End of Evangelicalism? and is the coauthor of Prodigal Christianity. Fitch coaches a network of church plants in the Christian and Missionary Alliance and he writes, speaks, and lectures on issues the local church must face in mission including cultural engagement, leadership, and theology. He has also written numerous articles in periodicals such as Christianity Today, The Other Journal, Missiology, as well as various academic journals.
Episode Talking Points:
- What is faithful presence?
- How do you be faithfully present in your community?
- Differences between rural and urban Christians
- How Christians think differently
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