City Awakening

Our mission is to reach people with the gospel, and then send them out to reach our city and the world with the gospel. We see this playing out in three ways: Gospel saturated worship, community, and multiplication.

Gospel Saturated Worship (Colossians 1:17)

We exist to worship. Everybody worships someone or something. At City Awakening, we worship the God of the Bible and we want others to know the prominence of God and His great love for them. We want everything at City Awakening to be a reflection of who Jesus is and what he has done for us. So we will live our lives as an act of worship to Jesus, and we will have the gospel at the center of our prayers, preaching, teaching, music, and worship gatherings. Our worship gatherings will be unashamedly saturated in the gospel for the glorification of God, edification of Christians, and salvation of non-Christians.

Gospel Saturated Community (Acts 2:42-47)

Everybody wants to be in a community with others, because we weren’t meant to be alone. The Bible teaches us that community is so much more than a group of people. It’s a gathering of people who are willing to get messy as we allow the gospel to invade the deepest parts of our lives. These groups will include prayer, study, missions, and times to just chill as friends. They will meet in workplaces, coffee shops, schools, neighborhoods, and homes outside of the weekly worship gatherings. They will also serve in tangible ways that will impact the societal needs of our city, including issues like homelessness, abortion, and human trafficking. At City Awakening these groups are about doing life together, as we live on mission together.

Gospel Saturated Multiplication (Matthew 28:19-20)

God has given us the gift of a restored and everlasting relationship with Him through the gospel. We believe that’s a gift worth sharing! So we are continually learning the joys, necessity, and desperation of sharing that undeserved gift with others, which is why we are highly committed to developing disciples who will make disciples, leaders who will develop leaders, and planting churches that will plant churches. It’s because we long to see the gospel capture the hearts of as many people and cities as possible. So we gather together for gospel saturated worship and community, but we will also scatter our church for gospel saturated multiplication.