You made it to church and even came along to the pub after, so what’s next? At Christ City Church, there is a clear missional ambition to build communities and bring the Kingdom of God to those around us. A City group may comprise anywhere from 4-10 people with the aim of meeting during the […]
Author Archives: Vanessa Kelada
Seminar – Going Deeper: Esther – 2 Jul
Something strange is going on. I’m noticing a trend. As many of you know, at Christ City Church, we’ve been doing seminars to go along with our sermon series, where we can dig deep into the biblical book that we are studying together as a church, and ask questions that would not be quite right […]
Christ City Life: Joining a team
Time. It’s valuable. We don’t want to waste it, wish we had more of it and certainly don’t want to give it up. You see, we’re all so incredibly busy: work, family, wandering aimlessly through dancing pet videos on Facebook and not to mention the never-ending Netflix series we’ve just watched for the 36th time. How […]
Seminar – Going Deeper: James – 28 May
The formation of “the canon,” meaning the authoritative collection of writings that now make up our New Testament, happened over the course of roughly 200 years. Some books were accepted by the early church immediately, others took more time. Highly regarded New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham once wrote: “In the process of reception by which […]
LIVE from Zambia 2017
Part 4 by Mo – 24th April Sunday (*Sing to the theme tune of the cartoon tv show, ‘The Flinstones’!*) “God’s Love is the Best Love That the World has ever, ever seen! Greater than the sun & moon & stars Farther than the Earth from planet Mars! God’s Love is the Best Love That the […]
Seminar – Going Deeper: Ecclesiastes – 12 Mar
Biblical scholars have long agreed that “genre” is one of the most important factors when interpreting any book of the Bible. For example, the genre of Paul’s writings is “epistle,” or, letter, and his writings need to be interpreted as letters, as opposed to, say, apocalypses (such as Revelation, which would be interpreted very differently […]
Six part blog series on our Vision and Values
Check out all our blogs on our six part series, each is linked below: A Provocative Church (Our Vision – part 1) A Church Not For Ourselves (Our Vision – part 2) What happened to all the fun? (Value 1) When will I grow up? (Value 2) Where is the love? (Value 3) Stop The […]