C3 Atlanta: Who We Are

About Christian City Church Atlanta

Christian City Church is about connection.  We want you to connect with a real and reachable God.  We are one body of many individuals.  We love God. We love people.  We love the house of God.

You've never experienced anything like Christian City Church Atlanta, and we'd love for you to come meet us.  Come enjoy a coffee in our Starbucks cafe this Sunday, and stay for an incredible experience.

The people. The message. The music.  Get ready for something completely different.

Who We Are

We are a group of people, men, women, and churches, joined together with a common sense of vision, friendship, compatibility and love. We like each other most of the time. We are Boomers, Busters, Gen Xer's, and Digitals. We love to hang out: laughing, loving and being together. We believe the investment of longevity in relationships has great dividends.

We are traditional and orthodox in the sense that we believe, preach and model a salvation in no other name than Jesus. But we aren't traditional or orthodox in our presentation of the ageless, culturally adaptable gospel of grace. We have a commitment to cultural relevance, but it isn't our bottom line. Our hearts are in heaven and our feet in the 21st Century.

We believe in apostolic and prophetic leadership. We have little faith in committees and leaderless democratic church government. And we accept, promote and rejoice in a diversity of application the how to's. We have some templates but believe that the coloring in is still done by the individual, guided by their context, community, culture and ingenuity.

We run with the reviving power of the Holy Spirit, faith and vision, Our focus is on church planting, church life and church growth, we are local church boys and girls. We love the big gathering; we love small groups. We are largely urban, urbane and industrialized in our focus, connection and call - be it Western or Eastern. We love America, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe, and Africa with no current plans for the Arctic Circle. We have few theologians, but lots of practitioners. We aren't fundamentalists, but we are believers.

We pray loud and long, aggressively and believingly. We wait in the silence that speaks. We are as comfortable in the still as in noise. We love the Word of God, and we live as though it's true. We go regularly to church, even though we know church is the people. We worship and worship, give and give and give and we live happy and normal lives. We aren't too deep, so as you can't find the bottom, nor are we particularly shallow neither intellectual snobs, nor illiterate simpletons. But we aren't afraid to think for ourselves, its dangerous not to think.

We don't want power over God's people (over anybody for that matter) we want them to think maturely and Christianly for themselves, and we teach them so.

We go where timorous folk don't, we live there. We are honest about that complex marvel full of promise and debilitating contradiction - our humanity with: failure, sin, temptation, marriage, money, sex, life, death and taxes. We talk about things that matter to people: their lives, homes, families, children, relationships, aspirations, businesses, fears, pains, needs, joys and successes.

We love life, literature, learning, laughter, art, music, family, young people, wine with a good meal and great friends, sailing, skiing, aerobatic pilots, computers and technology.

We believe in faith, hope and love, a bright, colorful, positive and encouraging church atmosphere a church that the unchurched are attracted to, filled with music, light, supernatural happenings, vision, purpose, loving people, and great preaching. We are fun, conservative, serious and holy. We are human. We live with paradox. We have contradictions. We celebrate humanity. We are Christians. We believe in God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We love People. We love each other. We really love God, and He loves us.

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