Our main Telos Church gathers in the Sacramento, CA region near the border of Roseville, CA and Citrus Heights, CA. Our gatherings have been growing relationally as people are learning more about God, the gospel, and our local Telos Church gatherings. A friend described us as raw, real, and reproducible, and Lord willing, we would love to see that multiply with more pastors and people coming together across the Sacramento region, Northern California, and beyond, inspired by truth and love to make life, disciples, and churches all about Jesus.
Aaron Menikoff, pastor of a church in Atlanta, GA, writes this recent article entitled, "You Don't Find Community by Looking for It." This would be one of many resources we can point to for anyone to read, learn from, affirm, or change in their understanding of Christ and Christianity, especially as one is "looking for a church" or "looking for community." There seems to be many ways to describe a local church like house church, family church, mega-church or other ways like through the church name, denomination, association, or network. More often, these categories become unhelpful and fillers for conversation. We want to see the conversation change along with lives changing because of God's work in people's heart and lives through the gospel of Christ and making known that "Christianity" is all about "Christ."