DashHouse.com

The Blog of Darryl Dash

Toronto, ON Canada

This blog is about how Jesus changes everything. He changes:

  • Our relationship with God
  • Our relationship with others
  • Our vocations - how we live and work in this world
  • Our ministries

This blog exists to explore some of the ways that Jesus changes everything. It provides resources and articles that will help you think about the ways that Jesus can change every part of your life.

The Lord himself invites you to a conference concerning your immediate and endless happiness, and He would not have done this if He did not mean well toward you. Do not refuse the Lord Jesus who knocks at your door; for He knocks with a hand which was nailed to the tree for such as you are. Since His only and sole object is your good, incline your ear and come to Him. Hearken diligently, and let the good word sink into your soul. (C.H. Spurgeon, All of Grace)

Loving Toronto

May 22, 2008  /  Darryl Dash

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I blame Tim Keller. Again.

It all started for me when I read his article A New Kind of Urban Christian. This got me listening to some of his other talks on urban ministry, which led to discovering books like Two Cities, Two Loves by James Boice, A Theology as Big as the City by Ray Bakke, and Urban Ministry by Harvie M. Conn and Manuel Ortiz. Add a dose of Richard Florida, some James Davison Hunter, and events like the Dwell Conference and you have something really begin to take shape.

I'm starting to see some conversations take place on what a gospel movement could look like in Toronto. And last night I joined a couple of hundred people from my denomination who came together for the first time in years for an event called Love Toronto.

Something is being birthed, and not just with me. There are little brushfires all over, and we're finding each other. Not sure exactly where it will all lead, but it's all pretty exciting. And (I hope) we're just getting started.

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