Welcome to The City Church!

The City Church isn’t a Sunday event; it’s not a building you come to. It’s a people; a group of normal, everyday, messy folks who Jesus is redeeming, and in whom he has put a deep passion to see that same redemption carried out in Fort Worth. We’re a growing family, who lives life together in neighborhoods, condos, dorms, coffee shops, and pubs across our city, seeking the welfare of the city where God has sent us as we live out our place in God’s story. We are one church, existing as communities on mission for the glory of God and the good of Fort Worth. We strive to be a family, where you can experience the love of God, ask questions, and find your place in God’s story.

If you’re new to our website, we invite you to click around, and we hope the links on the left side of this page will help you get to know us a bit. I encourage you to join us for an upcoming gathering, and invite you to let me know if you have any questions.

We look forward to getting to know you soon!

Ben Connelly, planting pastor

Our Mission

We are one church, existing as communities on mission for the glory of God and the good of Fort Worth.

Our Name

Throughout the Bible and history, cities are places of refuge and safety, of culture, of politics and trade, and of gathering. The Bible calls believers “the light of the world… a city on a hill” (Matt 5:14). And God describes his eternal world as a perfect, redeemed city. 

In the A.D. 300’s, an African bishop called Augustine wrote an enormous book called The City of God. In addition to defending Christianity against the charges of burning Rome, Augustine reintroduced the idea from Jeremiah 29:4-7, that Christians are called to live “as a city within a city.” In other words, God calls us to carry out his mission: actively involving ourselves in, and seeking the redemption of, the “city of man” (as he called it), where we work, play, and live. Augustine’s ideals lay the dual foundation on which we want to build our church. But “City of God” as a name sounded both cult-like and pompous. We don’t want to be either of those, so we settled on “The City.”