The church at Antioch was the first multi-ethnic church; it had people from Africa, Asia, Palestine, and Europe coming together and worshipping God. It was a radically inclusive community in an era of racial strife.

(1) What caused their oneness? What was the glue that brought them together? What is our glue at New City? It is the gospel. The gospel says that we are all messed up, the religious people and non-religious people, moral people and loose people, Jews and Gentiles, but that God has come down to rescue us. God sent Jesus Christ because he loves us more to we can ever imagine. It was the grace of God that brought people together in Antioch and it is the grace of God that brings people together at New City.

(2) What did God call them to do and what is God calling us to do? God called them to send out missionaries to plant churches. It was the first multi-ethnic church that becomes the base of a missionary movement in the early church. In the same way, as a church like Antioch, God is calling New City to a movement of planting a church in every neighborhood in Los Angeles.