About this Guide
This field guide is an instruction manual, workbook, and tool to use in your group as you seek the renewal of your city. It's designed to be used in conjunction with a journal. Read and discuss the content with your group and write down what you hear from God and learn from each other.
The Gospel is for all times and people, and although our moment in history is unique, the call of the Gospel and the practices of the Christian life have not changed. Jesus still calls sinners, the broken, the sick, the downcast, the weak, the weary, and the hopeless to “Follow me.”
To those who would be His disciples, He tells us to seek first the Kingdom of God, to abide in Him, and to go forth and make disciples. Filling the city with Jesus is not a catch-phrase, a program, or a method. It’s about seeking and abiding in the presence of God through the practices He has graciously provided: reading and abiding in His Word, walking in His Spirit, worship, prayer, and life in community. It is about aligning our hearts and wills with God’s heart and will. It’s about walking in the Spirit, living as sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father.
God has called you to live on a lifelong mission to reflect His glory, to build up the church through the gifts He has given you, and to proclaim the Gospel to those who are far off and those who are near (Acts 2:39). God asks you give your whole life to Him so He can give it back in fuller measure.
Are you ready? Let’s begin.
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” —1 Corinthians 1:26–31 (ESV)