People sometimes ask, “is CityFellowship part of a larger church or denomination?”
And my usual answer is, “Kind of…”
As Christians we consider ourselves part of the same family as Christians of every denomination… We believe every denomination is imperfect, but we also believe there are believers in each of these denominational families - and they are all “family” as far as we’re concerned. But each local church belongs to a group of churches - and when this group is formalized it’s called a “denomination.” Even non-denominational churches have their groups…and we have one too: We are the part of a Presbyterian denomination called the PCA (Presbyterian Church in America), but right now we’re sort of like the step-children that the family doesn’t like to talk about. We’ve never gotten any support from the denomination, no funding, and we hardly come up on their radar… Culturally we are a bit different from other PCA churches, and don’t always agree with the way things are done…
“Then why do you stay with the denomination?” Three reasons, [1] this is the denomination we were born into, and we feel like God has a purpose for these things, [2] we believe our differences make us more valuable to the PCA church family because we can offer different viewpoints, and [3] even though we have great differences, what we have in common is even greater: what we believe about God, and Jesus…