City On A Hill

1. Internal
a. Host/facilitate your Neighborhood meeting weekly.
b. Ensure that frequent communication (at least weekly) is made with your Neighborhood members. Check on their spiritual, emotional and physical wellbeing.
c. Ensure that care is administered to those who are hurting in the Neighborhood.
d. Ensure that missional and fellowship activities are a regular part of your Neighborhood activities.
e. Identify potential Neighborhood leaders (as well as pastoral and administrative people) in your Neighborhood.
f. Encourage/exhort those who have not been through City Gate to sign up for it.

Based on At our most recent Neighborhood leaders meeting, I shared a handout providing a biblical basis for Christians to live in community with each other. Even secular sociologists conclude that we humans are not meant to live in isolation. We were made for each other, to live in relationships. Behind the conclusion that we need to live in relationships with others, God has provided the motivation for us in His Word. The following verses are just a few of the many that lead to understanding that we are CREATED, CALLED, COMFORTED, CHANGED and COMMISSIONED in community with fellow believers.

What do you think the biggest challenge is for City on a Hill Neighborhoods to be successful? As I have talked to Neighborhood leaders over the last 2-3 weeks, I have heard the many challenges they face – lack of a clearly defined mission, lack of unity in the Neighborhood regarding purpose, lack of solid commitment from those who are participating in the Neighborhood, struggles to find the right time to meet, …These are real challenges, real obstacles to success, but I don’t believe any one of these is the greatest obstacle. Here’s my case.