The things we value at City Church Sheffield
There’s so much that we’re excited and passionate about. So much we value and live for. We’ve tied it down though to four main things.
Being friends, enjoying God together.
In John 15 Jesus says “I no longer call you servants… instead I have called you friends” . We're called into friendship with God and friendship with one another. Whatever badge we might feel we’ve been given by the world or the church, the atmosphere amongst us is that of friends enjoying God together. It is significant that this ingredient comes first! Sometimes in church groups the emphasis is so much on the mission but there's no depth of actual friendship between people. It's almost like a business arrangement. That's not the atmosphere that we want in the life of City Church Sheffield.
Empowered by the Word and by the Spirit
This is how we have built the church and will continue to do so as we move into multiple sites across the city. Each one of these sites, and their small groups are built on the Word and empowered the Spirit. It’s the same for our youth and kids work too. The two come together and enable the church to be who God’s called it to be.
Bring the kingdom to where we are
In the workplace, at the school gate, in our neighbourhood, on our street in all sorts of different places. Sometimes the courageous thing to do is actually to do less with church and more on your frontline. Yes we want to build the church, grow in our faith and maturity, but we also want to bring God’s reign and his good news wherever we go.
Reaching nations and making disciples
We are a local church, with sites across Sheffield, but we have a big global vision in seeking the kingdom right across the world. We have friends from this church who have moved to other places and we stand with them and support them in seeing the kingdom come in the Middle East, in Zambia, in Canada, in Japan to name a few. But we also want to see the Kingdom of God come here in Sheffield, among all the nations of the world that have been brought to Sheffield.