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Hope C3 Defined

Our culture at Hope C3 is best defined in the character of culture of the people and churches we hang around with. From one of our leading theologians, Dr. Simon McIntyre comes this revelation of...

Who is Christian City Church International - C3i?

We are a group of ministers and leaders 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 love to hang out: laughing, loving and being together.

We are traditional and orthodox in the sense that we believe, preach and model there is 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 (as opposed to the opposite) 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 colouring in 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, where is God for you and whatever else works. We are inspired plagiarists and discerning pragmatists most of the time.

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, and Europe 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 aren't agitators or activists but we change people's lives forever. Or, rather He does.

Our hearts are in heaven and our feet in the 21st Century...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, most of the time. 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, normal and moral lives, so far as I know. 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, grief we hardly have it over ourselves) 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, most of the time. 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, New York (any city we happen to be in), Phil's paintings, computers, technology (its not the Beast people think) ·

We aren't too keen, or fused, with: weak, instant or filtered coffee, any artistic endeavour that is prefixed with the word Christian - its bound to be tacky even though performed by people with a good heart bless them, religious trips to Israel (he is not there he is risen) dancing with ribbons, church buildings that look like church buildings, too many prophecies, the Christian right, they alienate the people we are trying to reach, prophets of doom (especially when they predict disaster to a place far from their own kith and kin), Pentecostal muesli, and others being our conscience for us.

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

We believe in faith, hope and love, a bright, colourful, 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 irreverent, risky, fun, conservative, serious and holy. We are human. We live with paradox. We have contradictions. We celebrate humanity. We are closet mystics. We are Christians We believe in God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit (even though we have no real idea how Trinity works, who does?).

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