Living in Community

Our vision for New City is much more than the Sunday Service. Sunday worship will be the time when all of our New City people gather together for a time of corporate worship. Our desire is to have great God exalting, Chist centered music and preaching - it will be a time of celebration together. But Sunday gathering will not be "church." Church will happen at various times of the week as New City people gaher in small groups and enjoy a place of community, discipleship, service and worship. The small group gatherings will ultimately be the place where church happens.
It was interesting to read a post from Drew Goodmanson as Kaleo heads in this same direction. Here's a portion of his post:

I spent the morning with Eugene, who heads up our missional communities at Kaleo. One of the challenges we've faced as a church centers on discipling people and seeing leaders emerge to give their life to be on mission. The following idea struck me from our conversation:
We often need structures to overcome our lack of community.
How can any person's life be changed by attending weekly programs? Isn't this just a portion of what Willow Creek 'Revealed' in their failure to create meaningful disciples? And they were THE model for the typical evangelical church. Kaleo is diving headlong deeper into life-on-life mission to San Diego.
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