WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE BELIEVE
we are Renovation City Church
mission
To build a community that experiences God’s kingdom and extends God’s kingdom to our neighbors.
vision
To see God rebuild and reclaim the beauty of the Bronx
The transformative power of the Gospel is the core of why Renovation City Church exists. God, in Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit reconciles us, along with our ethnic, generational, class, and political differences to be the new family of Jesus. We are both Gospel-centered, and Gospel-driven. We experience restoration because of the Gospel. We seek reconciliation through the Gospel. We work to rebuild our borough because of the Gospel. Our church exists to be more than just a gathering of people on Sunday. We exist not to only experience the peace of the Gospel, but also to extend it.
When we look at the Bronx, we see land that God created, and called good. We see people that God created, and called good. We recognize the good in the people, and the land, are meant to reflect God’s goodness. That’s why we choose to be a community that lives and loves like Jesus. To point others to Jesus, and to do the work of Jesus, so that those around us experience the same restoration, reconciliation, and rebuilding work of the Gospel that we actively experience. That’s what it means to be the church. That’s what it means to renovate.
Our Church Distinctives
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We are people of Scripture and the Spirit
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We dignify the neglected
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We empower women
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We pursue racial reconciliation
our liturgies
our liturgies
OPENING LITURGY
The Spirit of God, is on us, because God anointed us.
He sent us to preach good news to the poor, heal the heartbroken, announce freedom to captives, pardon prisoners.
God sent us to announce the year of his favor— and God’s anger to those who oppose to comfort all who mourn. To care for those who need in the Bronx. To give them beauty instead of ashes, joy instead of doom, reasons to praise instead of despair.
Call them Oaks of Righteousness, planted by God to display his glory. To rebuild what others ruined, To rise out of the damage. To repair the ruined cities, To take what’s left behind and renovate.
It is from this place, that we worship.
GENEROSITY LITURGY
Holy Father, there is nothing I have that You have not given me. All I have and am belong to You, bought with the blood of Jesus. To spend everything on myself, and to give without sacrifice, is the way of the world that You cannot abide.
But generosity is the way of those who call Christ their Lord. Who love Him with free hearts and serve Him with renewed minds. Who withstand the delusion of riches that chokes the word; Whose hearts are in your kingdom and not in the systems of the world.
I am determined to increase in generosity until it can be said that there is no needy person among us. I am determined to be trustworthy with such a little thing as money that You may trust me with true riches.
Above all, I am determined to be generous because You, Father, are generous. It is the delight of Your daughters and sons to share Your traits, and to show what You are like to all the world. Amen.
Our Beliefs / Theological Convictions