Frequently Asked Questions
Welcome! We’re grateful you’re here. Whether you’re exploring our ministry for the first time or preparing to start a gathering or core team, these questions will help you navigate the most important pages on our site. You can work through them on your own, but we especially encourage you to process them with a core team—reading, discussing, praying, and seeking God together. Our hope is that these resources will give you clarity, confidence, and encouragement as you join Jesus in making disciples who make disciples.
Getting Started
Where should I begin if I’m new to your website?
Start with Our Approach to Ministry: Overview. After that, read these core documents: Vision: Starting, Strengthening, & Multiplying Churches, Mission: Make Disciples of All Nations, and Core Values and Purposes.What is your overall approach to making disciples and planting churches?
Read Strategy: The Apostolic Cycle and Apostolic Implementation: How the First Churches Started, Strengthened, and Multiplied (AD 30–95). These pages explain the biblical pattern behind everything our ministry does.How does your model differ from traditional church programs or Sunday-morning-centered ministry?
See Apostolic Alignment: Our Underlying Goal and Core Concepts: Our Unifying Vocabulary. These explain how our approach focuses on relational networks, reproducible patterns, and the weekly gathering in homes rather than large, programmatic structures.
Evangelism
What is your approach to evangelism, and how do I begin sharing the gospel within my network?
Start with the Evangelism Training page. These pages explain how to serve, seek, and engage receptive people in natural, relational ways.What is The Path to God, and how do I use it with someone exploring Christianity?
Visit The Path to God. This is our primary evangelistic tool, designed for simple, Scripture-centered conversations that help people understand God, sin, Christ’s work, and how to respond with repentance and faith.
Discipleship
How do I help a new believer grow in their faith using your approach?
Use The Discipleship Series. This guides new believers through foundational doctrine, obedience, and mission, all within community.What does a typical house-church gathering look like using your model?
Visit Gathering in Homes: The Weekly Assembly of the Church. It explains the simple structure of Meal → Bread → Word → Prayer → Cup, along with singing, testimonies, and spiritual gifts.How do I start a simple house church or weekly gathering in my home?
Read How to Start and Lead a Gathering. This page gives you the practical steps, rhythms, and expectations for launching a meal-based gathering.
Leadership Development
What is Individual Coaching & Prayer, and why is it essential in your network?
See Individual Coaching & Prayer. It explains how regular coaching shapes godly character and stewardship in our most important relationships—including the call to evangelize, disciple, and develop leaders.What is Group Coaching & Prayer, and how does it strengthen leaders and gatherings?
See Group Coaching & Prayer. This page outlines how group coaching provides shared training, encouragement, problem-solving, and prayer among leaders.How do leaders grow, multiply, and plant new gatherings in your system?
Read The Path of Church Leaders and The Pastoral Training Program. These pages explain the pathway from faithfulness in small things to planting a new gathering.