IF YOU ARE COMING TO NEW YORK YOU HAVE TO KNOW TWO THINGS

If you are coming to New York, you have to know two things.

One, you will never be bigger than New York. You are not going to be able to come and build some great thing that is bigger than this city. This city will always be bigger than you. You will need gospel humility.

Two, you have to have a sense that you are bringing something unique to the kingdom ecosystem of New York. You have to feel that you have something to offer that doesn’t exist and is needed, otherwise join something already doing well or don’t come. It will be too hard without a clear sense of this. You will need gospel confidence.

Tim Keller
Counsel to Jon Tyson

VERY LITTLE REAL POWER

Human beings have very little real power over their lives. Ninety-five percent of what set the course of their lives is completely out of their control. This includes the century and place they are born in, who their parents and family are, their childhood environment, physical stature, genetically hardwired talents, and most of the circumstances that they find themselves in. In short, all we are and have is given to us by God. We are not infinite Creators, but finite dependent creatures.

Tim Keller