City By City: Gates & Walls

From Jericho’s collapsing walls to the open gates of the New Jerusalem, this week’s message in our City by City series explores a powerful question: What kind of city are we helping build?

Throughout Scripture, cities are more than locations—they reveal human priorities, fears, hopes, and God’s mission for people. Jericho stood behind towering walls built for protection and exclusion. But God’s story ends with a very different city: a New Jerusalem with gates that never close.

As we journey through Joshua 6 and Revelation 21, we discover that Jesus came not to reinforce barriers, but to tear down walls that divide and invite people into grace. In a city like Vancouver—beautiful yet often marked by loneliness, exhaustion, and spiritual hunger—followers of Jesus are called to embody hope, hospitality, and open-hearted community.

What walls need to fall? How can we become a church with open gates? And how might God use us to seek the peace and flourishing of our city?

Join us as we discover God’s heart for cities—and His heart for Vancouver.

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