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Surf Your Values
bad city,” this is a vision of engagement. While Redeemer addresses
its attention on New York, I believe the same truths can apply to
our focus on the virtual worlds in which we live.
1. Christians should live long-term in the city. . . . People who
live in the large urban cultural centers . . . tend to have
greater impact on how things are done in a culture. If a far
greater percentage of the people living in cities long-term
were Christians, Christ’s values would have a greater influ
ence on the culture.
2. Christians should be a dynamic counter-culture in the
city.
3. Christians should be a community radically committed to
the good of the city as a whole. . . . In the end, Christians will
not be attractive within our culture through power plays and
coercion, but through sacrificial service to people regardless
of their beliefs. We do no t live here simply to increase the
prosperity of our own tribe and group, but for the good of
all the peoples of the city.
4. Christians should be a people who integrate their faith with
their work.55
Redeemer has taken this fourth point and truly put its vision
into action, launching the Center for Faith and Work (CFW) in
2003, and making a positive difference throughout New York City
in a wide variety of professions. While some may decide to move
to New York City and join Redeemer, how can the rest of us apply
this vision to redeem our corner of cyberspace? Dr. Mike Wittmer,
associate professor of theology at Grand Rapids Theological Sem
inary, says everything we do matters to God.
Christians must accept a double responsibility for God’s world.
Because we are humans, we gladly unite with other people to de
velop culture, jo in ing the upward climb from the pristine garden
of Genesis
2
to the organized city of Revelation
21.
Besides this
cultural mandate, our comm itment to redemption also inspires
us to stay alert for those points where our culture is misused for
evil purposes.56
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