Major Approaches to City Reaching

God is raising people up all over the world to affect change. It is not just in your neighborhood. City reaching is about mobilizing the whole church to take the whole gospel to the whole city. It is about a common vision for bringing together the body of Christ. The whole church is diverse as the Antioch church was. The whole gospel involves the mighty works of and words of Christ. The whole city, in Little Rock, not only involves the main city but also the daughter suburbs that contribute to the system.

There are four major approaches to city reaching. One approach is presence based. This group focuses on prayer waiting on answers to that prayer. The evangelism focused approach spends their efforts on sharing the gospel to effect change to society on a person to person basis. Community development changes neighborhoods economically or otherwise to see change in the whole of society. When the whole church is mobilized as the approach to reach the city, the whole church has value in prayer, evangelism, and other in community development projects.