As promised in yesterday’s post, this is the counterpart and lists 10 reasons why I love church. It will hopefully help us as we think about how we fulfil our vision to make a positive difference in Dublin spiritually, culturally and socially. And by the way, I am a ‘glass half full’ kinda guy and […]
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10 things I hate about Church
This Sunday we finish off our series in the book of Colossians and have spent a week looking at our vision under the title ‘A Church Not For Ourselves’. I wrote a blog post a while back saying that our church should be for the good of the city and engaging to sceptics and this is […]
A Church Not For Ourselves (Our Vision – part 2)
An archbishop from a previous century famously said “The Church is the only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non–members.” “If only that were true” I hear you say! Well that is certainly our ambition and vision; we want to be a church that primarily exists not for ourselves but for those who do not normally go to church and for […]
Christ City Church official launch
On Sunday 12th October 2014 we officially launched Christ City Church Dublin. The theme of the service was ‘Satisfied?’ and we talked about what gives us satisfaction and whether we can ever be completely satisfied. We’re really excited to have launched the church after over two years of praying and planning, and we were thrilled […]
Where is the love? (Value 3)
There are many reasons why people don’t believe in Jesus. Some intellectual (doubts and objections), some emotional (pain and suffering) and some relational (the church sucks!). In this blog post I want to look at number 3 and talk about our third value as a church: community, which guides us to fulfil our vision of making […]
When will I grow up? (Value 2)
My little boy has just turned 5 years old. And on the night before his 5th birthday (we had been counting down from 10 sleeps) he started to ask me questions about what going to happen when he was 5. “Will I be bigger?” “Will I grow taller?” “Will I be grown up?” He expected […]
What happened to all the fun? (Value 1)
What is the first thing you think of when you think of God? Angry man in the sky? A delusion and invention of mankind to keep us in order? Jesus? Love? Well, what is the first thing you think of when you think of church? Boring? Irrelevant? Outdated? Man wearing a dress? Pews? Mass? Jesus? […]
Meetings in August
During August we’ll not be having any official meetings but we’ll still be spending time together on Sundays, before moving to our new venue (Filmbase in Temple Bar) from September 2014. Here’s the plan: Sunday 10th August: Games night from 7pm at Steve & Leanne’s in Stillorgan Sunday 17th August: Meeting in Phoenix Park (by the […]
Internship at Christ City Church Dublin
One of our core values as a church is raising up leaders. We see this clearly in the ministry of Jesus and the Apostle Paul. Leadership is a big deal all across the world in every sector of life; education, business, arts, government, sport and so on and so forth. One of the tasks of the current […]
The Dublin Banquet
On Sunday 4th May a team from the UK organised a big community meal for the people and city of Dublin. The team were given the challenge to organise a banquet in 48 hours, with only the venue already secured. They worked hard from Friday evening to Sunday to get all the food, invite people […]