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The City Worship Experience

Questions on the crossroads: Who's Coming With?

Welcome to The City! We are a people, a place, and a movement helping each other to live like Jesus and impact the city of Columbia. Our vision is to form community, uncover purpose, and create heaven on earth.

Locations & Times

204 S 9th St, Columbia, MO 65201, USA

Sunday 10:45 AM

Welcome to The City!!!!
Where the spirit of the lord is there is freedom. You are welcome to worship freely in this space however you feel led. Stand up, sit down, kneel - whatever is meaningful to you - you’re free to do it. You’re also welcome to try something new you’ve never done before.

We’re honored and grateful that you are here to worship God and to worship God with us today.

Echo, Tauren Wells

When night has fallen When fear is common Still you're calling me When faith is lost and My hope exhausted You will be my strength When my mind says I'm not good enough God you're enough For me I've decided I'm not giving up You won't give on me Your love is holding on and it won't let go I feel it breaking out like an echo Your love is holding on and it won't let go I feel it breaking out like an echo Echo in my soul In every season You keep repeating Promises to me Now there's no stopping What you have started Till it is complete

Children at The City
Children are welcome in worship. We value their presence. For all children (big and small) we have 3 metal baskets on the tables with fun stuff in them.

Children can also attend Children’s Worship. If you’re interested in that, a First Impressions Team member will meet you in the back and escort you and your child to the Children’s Worship area.

Stay Connected!
We've established a handful of ways for you to stay connected with The City Worship Movement throughout the week.

First: Head over to www.ComoCreatesHeaven.com and join our email list! You'll receive updates on all news and events happening within The City.

Second: Like us on Facebook to stay plugged into the ongoing conversation. https://www.facebook.com/TheCityMVMT/

Third: Check in, share posts, or tag us (#TheCityMVMT) on Facebook.

Fourth: Add @TheCityMVMT on Instagram for active updates on all City happenings! https://www.instagram.com/thecitymvmt/

Fifth: Complete the connect card on the clipboards. It’s a great way to indicate your next step, your desire to serve, and more

YouVersion

The YouVersion Bible App is one resource The City utilizes to help you engage with the Sunday morning message. Here, you’ll have access to the worship music, scripture, main message points, and more. Follow the link below or go to your App store to download YouVersion - it’s a little brown Bible. Once downloaded, open the app and go to More > Events > Search 'Missouri United Methodist Church' to find us. Make sure to save the event to be able to reference it in the future.

https://www.youversion.com/the-bible-app/

Brother, NEEDTOBREATHE

Ramblers in the wilderness we can’t find what we need We get a little restless from the searching Get a little worn down in between Like a bull chasing the matador is the man left to his own schemes Everybody needs someone beside em’ shining like a lighthouse from the sea Brother, let me be your shelter Never leave you all alone I can be the one you call When you’re low Brother, let me be your fortress When the night winds are driving on Be the one to light the way Bring you home Face down in the desert now there’s a cage locked around my heart I found a way to drop the keys where my failures were Now my hands can’t reach that far I ain’t made for a rivalry I could never take the world alone I know that in my weakness I am strong, but It’s your love that brings me home Brother, let me be your shelter Never leave you all alone I can be the one you call When you’re low Brother, let me be your fortress When the night winds are driving on Be the one to light the way Bring you home And when you call and need me near Sayin' where'd you go? Brother, I'm right here And on those days when the sky begins to fall You're the blood of my blood We can get through it all Brother, let me be your shelter Never leave you all alone I can be the one you call When you’re feelin' low Brother, let me be your fortress When the night winds are driving on Be the one to light the way Bring you home Brother, let me be your shelter Never leave you all alone I can be the one you call When you’re low Brother, let me be your fortress When the night winds are driving on Be the one to light the way Bring you home Be the one to light the way Bring you home

Losing My Religion, Lauren Daigle

I've been an actor on the stage Playing a role I have to play I'm getting tired, it's safe to say Living behind a masquerade No more performing out of fear I'm trying to keep my conscience clear It all seems so insincere I'd trade it all to meet You here I'm losing my religion I'm losing my religion Light a match and watch it burn To Your heart I will return No one can love me like You do (no no no no no no) So why would I want a substitute I'm losing my religion I'm losing my religion I'm losing my religion I'm losing my religion To find You I'm losing my religion And finding something new Cause I need something different And different looks like You I'm losing my religion And finding something new Cause I need something different And different looks like You I'm losing my religion I'm losing my religion I'm losing my religion I'm losing my religion To find You To find You To find You To find You You

Holy Spirit, Francesca Battistelli

There's nothing worth more That could ever come close No thing can compare You're our living hope Your presence, Lord I've tasted and seen Of the sweetest of loves Where my heart becomes free And my shame is undone Your presence, Lord [Chorus:] Holy Spirit, You are welcome here Come flood this place and fill the atmosphere Your glory, God, is what our hearts long for To be overcome by Your presence, Lord Your presence, Lord There's nothing worth more That could ever come close No thing can compare You're our living hope Your presence, Lord I've tasted and seen Of the sweetest of loves Where my heart becomes free And my shame is undone Your presence, Lord [Chorus] [x4:] Let us become more aware of Your presence Let us experience the glory of Your goodness [Chorus]

In The City, we see the teaching time as communal. It’s not one person's time to shine but ours together with the Holy Spirit.

So two things you need to know.
The first is that in The City, there are no rhetorical questions. If a question is asked, you will be given time to think about it or answer it either in the teaching itself or later in a reflection time. You can record your thoughts however you'd like - the YouVersion app, your phone memo, a journal, post your thoughts on social media - but don’t let questions go unattended.

The second thing you need to know is YOU matter in this time of worship. When asked what makes The City different from other churches in Columbia,our belief is that we’re not in competition with other churches, we’re all on the same team. But there is one thing that is different and the difference is YOU. When you are here you make this experience richer, more textured. You bring your light and energy and questions and very heart to this space and that creates atmosphere and community for the short hour or so we’re together.

Last week, we started a series called
Questions on the Crossroad; Lessons from the book of Luke.
The first message was about making a decision.
Where are we going? On a path of becoming more like Jesus.

This week we approach the golden rule of scripture - The Great Commandment - and our mission:Helping each other live like Jesus from the inside out.Luke 10:25-27

Luke 10:25-37

If you think back to the sitcoms there are always neighbors who become part of the story-line.

In Home Improvement there’s Tim the Tool Man Taylor’s neighbor Mr. Wilson who shares life lessons through the wood slats in their shared fence. You never see his entire face.

On this Lenten faith road the Journey is not a far off place, it could begin right outside your door.The destination is to the place of loving God, self and neighbor. On this faith journey we’re commanded to love and commissioned to go.

Too often, people are afraid to go - go make disciples of all nations. People have made disciples in traumatic ways, dangerous ways, and even murderous ways. The fear of coming off in any of these ways leave us stagnant and disobedient.

What if we embrace where we go every day? We leave the house, go to work, school, study, go play, go hang out, go shopping - we’re on the go a lot. What if we saw the roads we travel in our everyday coming and going as part of our invitation to love our neighbor. What if every threshold we cross is a neighbor awaiting to get to know us - which includes knowing, over time, how Jesus has impacted your life. What if, any place beyond your threshold are your road trip buddies, your travel companions? What if right outside our door --on a well worn path we walk or drive daily and multiple times a day is the place we’re called to be a Good Samaritan. The people next door are our neighbors. The people in all of our going and coming are are neighbors. Now, you may not know yet, what their experience on the faith road is, but they are out there with you.

In the book The Art of Neighboring: Building Genuine Relationships Right Outside Your Door, the authors lift up several barriers to good old fashioned neighboring:

The first is TIME.
Hurry negates our opportunity to be loving. We tell ourselves that someday I’ll have more time to do some of the things that really matter. Here’s the question to ask ourselves about hurry: Do I live at a pace that allows me to be available to those around me? And if not, are all of the things I’m doing more important than taking the Great Commandment to heart?
One thing about today’s neighborhoods are garages. You never know when people are home. So we take chances to stop by and ring the bell. Back in the day, many people parked on the street and the hung out on their front porches. Did you have a front porch or do you now?

My grandparents knew everyone in their neighborhood because after dinner we always sat onside on the porch, talking, braiding hair, playing made up games, crushing on the boy neighbors, jumping double dutch. A sense of community formed on the porch.These days we must be intentional to form community in our neighborhoods. One way The City started doing this is holding diners - just throwing a party at your house for neighbors and friends.

The second barrier to neighboring is FEAR.
We can make up big hairy monster stories about people or situations that keep us from connecting with them. Listen, be safe, be discerning. But also take action and be courageous. We have two coffee addicts in the office here at church. They shall remain nameless---one is here today and the other is on a Puerto Rico Mission trip. These two plan coffee trips the night before. They are known in the local Starbucks. They know the baristas and baristas know them and their orders. Starbucks whose goal is to be our third place.. The place, aside from home and work, that we spend the most time. This is known as a third place. It’s a place you are known by name, feels, like home, and people actually engage you.

In our Scripture today, the Good Samaritan and the Great Commandment call us to be neighborly.The Road in the book of Luke has broken and beat up people on it. People who are ignored, avoided, excluded and disliked.People deemed unclean and unworthy. Sometimes we’re the person lying on the road. Sometimes we’re the passerby. And sometimes, we journey with them as the Samaritan did. It’s not uncommon to be the one who’s experienced breakdowns on the the faith road to turn around and be the one who helps others on the same road.

God has placed people on our path right before us - they are our neighbors across the street, next door, and behind us.

On the papers coming around you’ll see a house. That’s your house… It might also be your dorm room or apt. This week’s challenge is to be neighborly. This is a block map. The other boxes represent homes/people

Draw a box with 9 boxes - The center box is you/your house, the other 8 boxes represent people across the street, next door, and behind you. Now if you live in a dorm or apt you might consider eight people on your floor, for example.

Now, the question is who do you know?
Fill in the boxes with the names of folks who live in the house/rooms. Think about when did you last see and speak to them? What do you know about them? Hobbies? Work? Make it a priority to fill in the boxes with names, one or two names each week over the next month. Even if you have lived next to someone for 18 years but you’ve forgotten their name. Meet them again, just say something like “I’m embarrassed to say, but I forgot your name.” They probably don’t remember yours either.

This small act of knowing your neighbors and speaking to them is the beginning of forming community. It’s one step in living our the Great commandment.
The most important thing Jesus asked us to do:
Love God. Love self. Love neighbor.

If we’re going to be called the city then we should know the people with whom we live and could potentially share life with. It is our hope that by Easter you have at least half of your block map completed.

Together, let’s take small steps in forming community and loving our neighbors as we seek to live like Jesus.

Offering & Faith in Action
We believe the offering is holistic and includes our prayers, presence, gifts, service, and witness.

Pull out your connect card on the clipboards. This is your way to stay connected if you so choose. Place the cards in the offering as it comes around.

Also note that details about these events can be found at the comocreatesheaven.com website under the watch and listen tab.You can also complete a connect card online there.

Prayers:

We'd be honored to pray for you this week. Go to the website (comocreatesheaven.com) and scroll to the bottom. There you will find a link to submit your prayer requests to The City.

Presence:

Easter Series This Easter we will begin a new series: All things new: Question Resurrection. In The City we value questions as part of the sacred road of faith. Starting Tuesday, April 23 for seven weeks, we will have a series diner. In addition to a meal, we will discuss the message from the previous Sunday and, using Brené Brown’s curriculum Rising Strong™ you’ll identify places for personal resurrection, learn ways to get back up and how owning our stories of struggle give us the power to write a daring new ending.

Financial Gifts:

There are three ways to give at The City. 1) You can give by texting “MOUMC” to 73256 2) Go to the website (https://tinyurl.com/GiveAtTheCity) 3) Place your gifts in the bowls that will be passed around.

Service:

Egg-a-Palooza Egg Drop Sunday, April 14 3:00-6:00 p.m. Cosmo Park (1410 N Creasy Springs Rd) With the help of the fire department, Candy and toy filled eggs will be falling from the sky Three things you can do: 1) Share the event from the city worship movement FB Page 2) Sign up to serve that day. From hosting a carnival game to be walker and talker. The goal is 100 volunteers total from our six Columbia United Methodist churches. Go to moumc.org/eggdropvolunteer Volunteers get cool shirts if they sign up today! 3) Bring your family. If you have little ones show up and have fun. Invite another family to join ya.

Witness:

Invite someone to come with you to this series. Share the message with them from our website comocreatesheaven.com on Tuesday when it’s uploaded.

Oceans, Hillsong

You call me out upon the waters The great unknown where feet may fail And there I find You in the mystery In oceans deep My faith will stand And I will call upon Your name And keep my eyes above the waves When oceans rise My soul will rest in Your embrace For I am Yours and You are mine Your grace abounds in deepest waters Your sovereign hand Will be my guide Where feet may fail and fear surrounds me You've never failed and You won't start now So I will call upon Your name And keep my eyes above the waves When oceans rise My soul will rest in Your embrace For I am Yours and You are mine And You are mine Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders Let me walk upon the waters Wherever You would call me Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander And my faith will be made stronger In the presence of my Saviour Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders Let me walk upon the waters Wherever You would call me Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander And my faith will be made stronger In the presence of my Saviour Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders Let me walk upon the waters Wherever You would call me Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander And my faith will be made stronger In the presence of my Saviour Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders Let me walk upon the waters Wherever You would call me Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander And my faith will be made stronger In the presence of my Saviour Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders Let me walk upon the waters Wherever You would call me Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander And my faith will be made stronger In the presence of my Saviour Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders Let me walk upon the waters Wherever You would call me Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander And my faith will be made stronger In the presence of my Saviour Oh, Jesus, you're my God! I will call upon Your name Keep my eyes above the waves My soul will rest in Your embrace I am Yours and You are mine

Group Benediction

You are blessed in The City.
You are blessed in the fields.
You are blessed when you come and when you go.
Go in love and peace.

The River (Come on Down), Hillary Scott

Are you tired of shame in secrets? Wishing you could let them go Do you feel like an orphan searching for a home? Well there's a love that fills what's empty There's a place you can be changed There's a God who knows you He's calling out your name Come on down to the river Come be washed in the blood And your sins will be forgiven by the power of His love Come be changed by the mercy That makes all things new Where the lost get found Come on down, down, down to the river To the river [Sharon White & Cheryl White:] It flows like the Mississippi From the giver of endless grace And everyone is welcome here to dive into the waves So leave the questions far behind you Leave your past back on the shore And run with wild abandoned Wait no more [All:] Come on down to the river Come be washed in the blood And your sins will be forgiven by the power of His love Come be changed by the mercy That makes all things new Where the lost get found Come on down, down, down to the river To the river [Hillary Scott:] Every burden, every scar Let the waters wash away No matter who you were before You belong to Christ today Yeah, you belong to Christ today As I went down to the river to pray Studying about that good 'ol way And who shall wear the robe and crown Good Lord, show me the way Oh Sister, let's go down, let's go down, come on down Oh Sister, let's go down, down to the river to pray [All:] Come on down to the river Come be washed in the blood And your sins will be forgiven by the power of His love Come be changed by the mercy That makes all things new Where the lost get found Come on down, down, down to the river To the river Come on down, come on down To the river

The City Spotify Playlist

Want to hear more music from The City? Here is the link for the Spotify playlist. It’s collaborative – so feel free to go in on any account and add songs!

https://tinyurl.com/MusicAtTheCity