First Baptist Church San Antonio - Mid-Week in the City

We all get confronted with questions raised by three things—and sometimes it seems everybody but you got the answer sheet. Join us for PART 2 of a three-part series about living with these unavoidable realities. Join us for Mid-Week In the City.

We all get confronted with questions raised by three things—and sometimes it seems everybody but you got the answer sheet. Join us for part one of a three-part series about living with these unavoidable realities. Join us for Mid-Week In the City.

What are your weaknesses? Chances are, you’ve not told many people. Keeping up appearances, and all that. The downside is that a tight lid on weaknesses limits intimacy, which in turn makes it difficult for friendship to take root. Join us for a conversation on building a life together that’s strong enough to handle weakness. Join us for Mid-Week In the City.

We often hear that we live in a broken world. But what if the world is actually proceeding...exactly as intended? Does that mean God is behind all the evil? Join us for a conversation about wickedness, suffering, and the only kind of world in which it’s possible for human beings to exist. Join us for Mid-Week In the City.

The framers of the U.S. Constitution loved to hate politicians. They were suspicious of people in power, so they designed the Constitution as a safeguard against the worst tendencies of the political class. Join us for a conversation with political scientist and UTSA associate professor Matthew Brogdon about how the Constitution gives power to the people. Join us for Mid-Week In the City.

The universe is a mysterious place. And we’ve all got plenty of questions about it. The reason we host Mid-Week In the City is to provide a safe place to ask those questions. Each week, we explore the big questions of our day, gathering around tables to eat together & talk about fear, hope, pain, spirituality, suffering, joy, the future, and much more. Join us for Mid-Week In the City.

The old stereotyped pageant contestant comment of “world peace” in the global challenges Q&A portion of those contests has been lampooned as hopelessly naïve unserious pseudo-political drivel. Such talk can entice us to not give peace a chance. Jesus, though, is called the Prince of Peace. Join us for a conversation on how peace can take root and grow in us.

Happiness is temporary, but joy is everlasting. What does that even mean? If it sounds like a dodge, maybe it is. At the very least, that cliché doesn’t really tell us how to learn joy. But if joy is an indispensable characteristic of the eternal kind of life, we’d do well to find it. Join us for a conversation on the search for joy.

What’s the most powerful force in the universe? Love. If that sounds like a tagline for a movie on Oxygen or Lifetime, that just demonstrates how far we’ve drifted from the understanding of love as the strength that will build communities where people lay down their lives for one another. Now it’s just the force that builds romcoms. Wow. Join us for a conversation about how love will save our lives if we will learn from Jesus how to live in it.

A group in a church—single adults, whatever—can plan some activities and some Bible studies, and we can call it a ministry. Or we can restructure the way we live together, and we can call it a life. Wednesday night, join us for a conversation about what it’s going to take to create a kind of life with each other in which we know intimate friendship, fight fair, call forth the best in one another, and make room for others.

You’re pretty vulnerable on the inside; everybody is. But if we never let people see into our soul, we will not be able to love and to be loved. How do we build a fellowship that we can trust with our inner life? That’s the question we’ll tackle this Wednesday.

Can the church envision a way of living that rises higher than families’ fearful secrets or a bitter war of words or the alienation of people? Let’s consider these things carefully this Wednesday as Mid-Week In the City partners with FBCSA University.

A conversation—a real conversation—takes place when it really can go anywhere, instead of in some pre-determined direction that someone has decided it should go. If we’re going to look into life’s mysteries this summer at Mid-Week In the City, it’s going to take quite a few of those real conversations. So, this week, let’s do this: You set the agenda. You ask the questions. Ask me whatever. I’ll do my best to answer you, and you’ll do your best to answer me, and all of a sudden it’s kind of like real life. Unafraid of questions—that’s the church at its best.

Gather with other single adults as we look at living a good life. We mean for this time to be hilarious, surprising, and honest. If we pull that off, we’ll be having a pretty great summer.

It’s time again for ABW—an unscripted, no- subject-off-limits conversation. Historically, there’s been no better place than the church to ask tough questions. Let’s make it so again. Sometimes we’ll find some answers, sometimes we’ll have to leave it at “I don’t know”, but we’ll always have some good conversation.

You say you want to do what pleases God. But does that mean you expect God to tell you what to do? How much say do you have in creating your future? And when does waiting for an answer become avoidance of commitment?

Panel Guests: Ron Belgau, Matthew Lee Anderson & Johanna Finegan. Sexual desire is reality that all of us are called to steward well, regardless of how any of us identify—gay, straight, lesbian, whatever. None of us get to sidestep the Bible’s teaching.