Disciple Making Movement
Sojourn’s Vision is to Be an alliance of micro/House Churches that make disciples of Jesus, transformed by God’s Spirit in community, that will represent Jesus to the world.
God’s vision to spread the Gospel is His Church. Jesus told his followers to go and make disciples all throughout the world (Matthew 28:18-20). This is always done through relationships with people in a community. It is also a spiritual process in which people are changed by the Holy Spirit. The end result is that those who become disciples will be a witness to those they are around and will then make more disciples.
Values
Target Driven describes a congregation that is committed to the evangelization of every man, woman and child in a specific geography by giving repeated opportunities to respond to the Gospel as it is seen, heard and felt through the lives of God’s people.
Focus on Overlooked: our churches will find and serve the marginalized around us.
Measurable Incarnate Values are the threshold characteristics that leadership has determined are non-negotiable for growing God’s people to be instruments of His glory for His mission. Leadership has plans and strategies for nurturing the people of God in these values while at the same time measuring the quality expressed in the their lives: 1) Intimacy with God, 2) Fruit of the Spirit, 3) Grace Testimony, 4) Gifts of the Spirit, 5) Stewardship of Life, 6) Personal Circle of Accountability.
Relational Discipleship: the primary way that disciples are made is in the context of relationships and community.
Family Culture describes the way we interact with one another and the intentional size of our churches (15-50).
Empowering God’s People means that the primary strategies for the evangelization of the target are dependent on facilitating all of God’s people, not on the activity of exceptional leaders. Leadership is postured to identify, invest and develop the abilities, gifting and passions that God personally gives to His people.
Reproducible congregations are structurally organized to cooperate with the decentralization of people, so that the focus is on multiplying incarnational groups of believers throughout their target.
Interdependent Leadership is more than one, diversely gifted and mutually dependent for the accomplishment of God’s Mission for His people.
Church Partnership is based on the conviction that God has one body and one mission. These congregations are intentionally partnered and humbly related to other congregations for the unity and purpose of the Church.
Telescoping is a posture of missions directed at facilitating indigenous leadership in distant locations. These congregations seek to reproduce the principles, not the models, that are foundational to the extension of God’s Mission in the World through the multiplication of His people in a locality culturally different from themselves.
Definitions
Alliance of Churches: a network of churches where each church is focused on gospel saturation through disciple making in a specific area or target
Micro/House church: a congregation of 15-50 people focused on gospel saturation and making disciples
Disciples: a student, learner, or follower of Jesus who reorients all of life around the person and mission of Jesus.
Transformation: disciples are being transformed to be like Jesus and learn how to disciple others, disciples are transformed in what they do and who they are in Jesus; they learn to hear from Jesus and obey what He says
Community: the bible refers to a discipling community as the church, we like to think of it as a spiritual family on mission
Represent: the church represents Jesus and His message individually and as a community to those they are around through word and action