by David Bayly on September 23, 2015 - 10:56pm
Jeremiah 29:7 is used as a theme verse by many missional churches:
Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf; for in its welfare you will have welfare.
Redeemer Presbyterian in Manhattan is one--perhaps the first--of many churches to make Jeremiah 29:7 a rallying cry for Christian engagement with metropolitan culture.
A 2003 sermon by Tim Keller on Jeremiah 29:4-14 finds this description in Redeemer's sermon catalogue:
