Pervasive mission means that the setting of mission is everywhere; and the scope of mission is all of you. 

The question for us as a church is how we are going to connect these dots. What is our main strategy for seeking the good of the Cities? We call them Community Groups. 

Seeking the good of the Cities means, first, we love the Cities; and second, we want the people of the Cities to be happy; and then third, therefore, we want the people of the Cities to know and experience the love of Jesus.

Stephen enters into our story in Acts as the opposition is growing.  If you remember, the opposition started not quite as aggressive as ready to kill...

We want to talk about sin and brokenness and evil and disobedience to God, because we need the forgiveness of sins that God offers us in Jesus. 

Last week we looked at our first essential—“We worship Jesus.” This week I want to say a few words about our second essential—“We serve one another”—and second structure of our church—Life Groups. 

Our mission at Cities Church is the Great Commission, and underneath that mission, we have three essentials that correspond to the three main structures of this church.

The easiest, most radical thing we can do for our neighbors might simply be saying hello. So why don’t we?

It’s not lost on the leadership here at Cities Church that as we plant this new church in 2015, we do so in a dramatically more post-Christian day than we were born into in the 80s.

Anger is always exposing what matters to us. And most of the time, if we are honest, what our anger tells us about what really matters to us is not so pretty. 

The glory of God is for all the peoples of the earth. Do we really understand what this means?

We want to encourage you to become whole counsel of God people by developing a deep familiarity with the Scriptures. I like that word—familiarity. Like family. I want the Bible to be like family to me.