Jesus Church

Many people in America no longer fit into the copy of Christianity that churches have downloaded and spread like a virus. When Jesus said in Luke chapter 5 that you cannot pour new wine into old wineskins, he was saying that the ever-expanding work of God through Jesus could not fit into the religious containers of His day. It was too restrictive. It did not adapt to different people, cultures, needs, or opportunities. It was a monument, not a movement. It had become an organization of rules and rituals instead of an organism of loving relationships. It had missed the heart and purposes of God. The religious leaders had built a system that created barriers instead of bridges to people’s lives. Does any of that sound familiar?

God wants to do something new in people’s lives today that does not fit into the current version of church in America. And you can be a part of it!

1. Shares life and love with the people that the religious usually avoid.

2. Trains disciples in small missional communities that model the life of Christ—not over-educates people in artificial environments.

When you continually overeducate people beyond their level of obedience, it fosters apathy toward moral and missional obedience. Missional communities share their life and resources in ways that encourage other people and challenge their own growth.

3. Creates missional environments where difficulty, suffering, and perseverance are instruments for new growth—not something to be avoided.

Leadership should place disciples in relationship with Jesus and the ever-increasing challenges of mission. Serving the mission is the means by which God changes His followers, then changes the world.

4. Sends away ordinary people to spread the gospel as their life calling—rather than gathering them to keep them.

Jesus started a movement by multiplying disciples and missional groups that spread out as they grew up.

5. The centralized gathering exists to serve the decentralized microchurch—not the other way around.

Although the centralized church reserves most of its resources to train leaders, resource groups, and expand mission through the microchurch expression, on the weekends it gathers all the missionaries together. Hundreds of missionaries that serve through their microchurch during the week will face the difficulties of hard ministry and the challenge to persevere. Therefore, our weekly gathering will provide a place of “REST.”

Real Worship

Encouragement to Persevere

Shared Story

Training in Discipleship and Ministry