Chicago Fellowship is committed to helping men experience the saving grace of Jesus Christ and work together to extend that grace to others through acts of compassion and justice in the broken places of our world. When we gather, we challenge and encourage one another through God's Word and the shar…
Chicago Fellowship Board member and Together Chicago Co Founder Dave Dillon interviews three key leaders from Together Chicago and hearing their life stories. Lavonas Troupe, Charles King and Laprentiss Flowers all have past histories in different “tribes” in Chicago and were on very opposing sides of various conflicts on the streets of Chicago. By God's grace they amazingly all now work collaboratively at Together Chicago to help end the violence on our streets. God has been at work in each of them and we were blessed by their stories and by hearing about the progress that has been made in bringing down the level of violence and by learning more about what the real issues are now on our streets.
God's salvation sounds like joy because it has the power not just to cover or cleanse our sins but to create new hearts in us, because it is big enough to deliver us from personal sin and societal injustice, and because it spreads from our personal testimonies throughout our communities.
Jon Houghton moderates a panel that includes Skye Jethani, Joe Baker and Austin Carr about how Steve's messages will hit the ground in their lives.
Steve Carter challenges us attendees to pursue excellence in both their craft and their character.
Steve Carter teaches through 2 Timothy 2:3 and asks who is your commanding officer? What is your playbook? And what harvest are they producing?
Chicago Fellowship Executive Director Jon Houghton describes why exclusively left brain discipleship (truth, doctrine, beliefs) and doesn't lead to the character formation we desire and how we can invest in full brain discipleship in order to become the kind of person who does, easily and routinely what Jesus said and does it without having to think much about it.
Our Director, Jon Houghton, spoke about "Simple but Radical," which was a great message about focusing on the positive and following Jesus.
Jarrett Stevens shared a powerful message about focusing on changing the paradigm about how God sees us and why we are here in this world.