The City God Sees

HE SAW A STREET. GOD SAW A HARVEST.

A tired man with a scarred back walked into a wealthy, chaotic, spiritually saturated port city with no reputation, no team, and no reason to expect anything to happen there. It was, by every visible measure, the wrong place. And God met him there with five words that changed everything: I have many people in this city.

Los Angeles is not Corinth. But stand at the top of the Foothill Freeway on a clear morning and look south across the basin, and the resemblance is closer than it's comfortable to admit — money moving through like water through a channel, people arriving from everywhere and reinventing themselves, a religious market that has already tried everything and is starving anyway.

The numbers are sobering, and this book doesn't dodge them.

It asks a different question instead: what if the visible world was never the whole world?

Moving through Scripture's own account of a hard field that became a thriving church, The City God Sees offers not optimism about how things look, but a different way of seeing altogether — one that lets a person stay somewhere difficult for a very long time and keep speaking, because the harvest was never actually about what's visible from the street.

Small Group Companion & Leader’s Guide also available.