In the last 18 months, the pandemic has challenged the status quo, causing many of us to rethink both the obstacles and the opportunities this has afforded—-opportunities which, had we not been caught in a worldwide pandemic, we might have missed. With foreign travel mostly off the cards and stay-cations becoming the ‘in thing’, there […]
Category Archives: Vision & Values
CCC – Finance & Vision Update (February 2021)
Excelling in the grace of giving I wonder what you think our church is known for? Or I wonder what you would like our church to be known for? When Paul wrote to the Corinthians about the matter of financial giving (see 2 Corinthians 8-9), he wanted to stir them into action by telling them […]
May 2019: a month of renewal – seeking God for CCC
Christ City Church is coming up to 5 years old (Sept 2019), and in preparation for this we wanted to ask the whole church to commit to a month of renewal. A number of times in the Bible story we learn that the people of God gathered together to recommit themselves to God and to […]
Church Survey Results – Encouragements and Questions after two years
Often in the Old Testament story God’s people stop to reflect on their current situation, reaffirm their covenant to God, and commit to follow him in the future (e.g Deuteronomy 29-31 and Joshua 24). Christ City Church is just over two years old, so we wanted to do a survey to do something similar. We […]
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 […]
Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts (Test)
In 2 Timothy 1:7 the Apostle Paul tells Timothy to ‘fan into flame’ the gift that was in him. Peter tells Christians that… Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms (1 Peter 4:10). So the obvious question comes – […]
Changing The World Around The Table
We’re just about the start back as a church and our new series is all about Jesus’ Last Supper with his disciples, told to us in John 13-17. In these chapters Jesus prepares his church for his imminent departure. In this short post I wanted to reflect on how Jesus’ decision to have a meal with his […]
2 Reflections on Christian Community from Dietrich Bonheoffer
One of our core values as a church is community, and this August we’re going to stop gathering together on a Sunday to spend more time intentionally building community through various activities and lots of food. We’ll kick back into our normal Sunday Gathering routine in September. So this month of ‘life together’ felt like a good […]
Why Give? 5 Obvious reasons!
Financial Giving, it’s a topic no-one naturally wants to talk about and yet Jesus, in his usual way, always brings up the topics we don’t want to talk about. If it wasn’t for Jesus we wouldn’t have to talk about hell, financial giving, sexual ethics and all those other hot potatoes. I guess the reason […]
Acts 6: A Church In Transition (Strategic Plans at Christ City Church) – Sunday 12th April
When you read the book of Acts you see there are a number of ‘transition moments’ which are marked by the phrase “so the word of God spread” or something similar. As the gospel went from Jerusalem to Judea to Samaria to the ends of the earth, there were key changes in leadership as God […]