Within three years of its first informal meeting, Redeemer Presbyterian Church launched Hope for New York in 1992 to mobilize funding and volunteers for organizations meeting physical needs of the city. If the church didn’t do this work, Keller warned, they would deserve the city’s scorn.32 The world isn’t accustomed to a church that cares just as much about expositional preaching as it does about justice for the poor. But at Redeemer, these goals would be theologically inseparable.33
