Come to Me | I Am the Vine - Jon Tyson
Church of the City New York
COTC NYC
4.8 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This Sunday, Pastor Jon taught from John 15 and offered a different diagnosis for burnout. While our instinct is often to assume we've simply given too much, he challenged us with another possibility: the problem isn't output but source. We haven't been drawing from the right one.
When Jesus calls himself the True Vine, it's one of the most sweeping claims He ever makes. From that foundation, Pastor Jon walked through what abiding actually looks like. It's not about a longer quiet time or more spiritual disciplines, it's about a relationship. Using his own early days dating his now-wife, Christy, as an illustration, he reminded us that abiding is less about effort and more about the security and overflow of a relationship you're already in. That's the kind of intimacy Jesus is inviting us into, and for those who remain in His love and rely on the Spirit's power, the promise is fruit that lasts.
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| 0:00.0 | Goody folks, John Tyson here. Hope you're doing well. Hey, I wanted to take a moment just to address |
| 0:05.8 | those of you who listen to our podcast. Thank you so much this past year for walking alongside |
| 0:13.7 | us as a church and for listening in on what God is doing. It really has been an incredible year for us as a church. I really don't think we've |
| 0:25.4 | ever had a year like this. I've been here for over 20 years and what God's doing right now is |
| 0:31.5 | really remarkable. We are seeing a spiritual openness in New York that everybody I know in New York across the city says they've |
| 0:40.4 | never witnessed since they've lived here. This is incredible. The amount of prayer that's |
| 0:45.5 | happening here, friendships, relationships, it's just wild. And so for those of you who are |
| 0:50.8 | listening in and you've been praying for us and cheering us on as a church, |
| 0:55.1 | I do want to take a moment just to say thank you. |
| 0:57.6 | We feel it. |
| 0:58.7 | We're so encouraged by not just your listening in, but the support that you give us. |
| 1:05.5 | We are really, really grateful. |
| 1:07.7 | I also wanted to give you a chance if what's happening in our church is something really meaningful for you, |
| 1:13.3 | for you to partner with us. |
| 1:16.0 | You know, at the end of the year we do a Living the Liturgy campaign. |
| 1:19.8 | And in some sense, it's just our attempt to ask God what does he have for the future and to rally around that, |
| 1:25.8 | both with prayer and resources to live into the future we think |
| 1:29.9 | God's got for us. This next season is really definitive because as a church right now, |
| 1:39.0 | you're probably aware of this. We do have a ton of God-given momentum right now, and we do not want to just keep that for |
| 1:47.3 | ourselves. I remember in the early days of being here thinking, if God ever really blesses us, |
| 1:52.6 | I want to be one of those churches that turns outward and seeks to serve the city, not just serve |
| 1:57.5 | itself. And we've done small attempts at that over the years, but this really is a |
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