by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Dec 19, 2021 | Big Picture
Every Monday morning, the two of us start our pastoral meeting with a walk through the neighborhood, celebrating the Sunday service and the things that happened before and after. We inevitably talk about where we saw Jesus show up and share about some relational risk...
by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Dec 7, 2021 | Big Picture
by Bill White After part 1 of this story, that initial conversation at the local brewery with our neighborhood witch, when I refused to talk about the bible – she finally wore me down. The following week, we met at another of our church offices (this time, my...
by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Nov 30, 2021 | Big Picture
By Bill White A few years ago I met our neighborhood witch (her term, not mine). She lives a few blocks over from me, and it turns out she wasn’t a big fan of evangelicals like me (or the me I used to be). Understandably, it hasn’t helped Ari’s* connection to...
by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Oct 23, 2021 | Big Picture
Bill “I get so confused,” my friend on the phone was saying to me late Wednesday night. “You and Brenna keep telling me God loves me, but my family keeps telling me God hates me. I don’t know which one to believe.” My friend grew up going to big churches nearby...
by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Sep 18, 2021 | Big Picture, Partnership
Why this name? It’s long, especially if you have to tap it into a smartphone. One word names are so evocative and catchy. And don’t churches of all sizes matter? We’re limiting “our market.” We know. Still, these two phrases capture so much of what we’ve experienced...
by Bill White & Brenna Rubio | Jul 27, 2021 | Big Picture, Teams
Bill: I failed as a head pastor. I had always wanted to be one, but I sucked at it. My good friend Jason Brown and I planted City Church of Long Beach in 2013 as co-pastors, but he moved back to Iowa to raise his kids with the extended family in 2016, leaving me...
