Start Here: Our Approach

Our Vision: Everyday People Reaching Their Networks for Christ

Jesus designed disciple-making to be simple, relational, and reproducible. In the New Testament, the gospel advanced not through programs or institutions, but through ordinary believers who lived out their faith in households, neighborhoods, workplaces, and everyday relationships.

Our vision is to help you step into that same biblical pattern—to live as an everyday missionary where God has already placed you. We want to see disciples made, believers strengthened in community, leaders raised up, and new gatherings formed across relational networks.

We believe God has already surrounded you with people he intends you to love, serve, and reach—and our aim is to give you the clarity, confidence, and practical tools to take your next step.

A Simple and Faithful Path for Making Disciples

Everything in The Gathering Network flows from one conviction: the way of Jesus and his apostles still works. Their pattern—sharing the gospel, forming disciples, growing in community, and multiplying leaders—remains the most faithful and fruitful way to live out Christ’s mission today.

Because of that, we follow a single, unified approach that helps ordinary believers grow in obedience and help others grow as well. This approach is designed to be clear, biblical, and reproducible—something you can live out in real life with real people.

How This Helps You: Practical Tools for Everyday Disciples

Below are the essential tools we use across the network. Each one is intentionally simple, rooted in Scripture, and designed for everyday use—whether in your family, your church, or your relationships with non-Christians.

The Mission: Make Disciples of All Nations

  1. Our Approach to Making Disciples: Our holistic approach to reaching our networks for Christ, building believers up in the faith, and developing them to multiply as leaders.

  2. Overcoming Obstacles to Making Disciples in Our Networks: A clear, honest guide that identifies the barriers ordinary believers face—and the concrete, biblical solutions that help us live the disciple-making way of Jesus.

Evangelism

  1. Starting an Evangelistic Study: Two approaches to starting a study with non-Christians and/or Christians who want to review the foundations of their faith.

  2. The Path to God: An introductory lesson that summarizes the Christian message—easy to use and faithful to the way the apostles summarized the Christian message.

Discipleship & Leadership Development

  1. How to Lead Family Devotions: Step-by-step advice to lead your family in Bible reading, prayer, and singing.

  2. The Discipleship Series: Step-by-step lessons that help believers grow in obedience to Jesus and quickly begin discipling others. This is the backbone of our training.

  3. Individual Coaching: A relational process that strengthens the believer in four key areas: character, key relationships, evangelism, and discipleship.

  4. Group Coaching: A supportive environment where leaders pray together, learn together, and encourage one another to live out their mission.

  5. The Pastoral Training Program: Training to prepare men to start, strengthen, and multiply churches.

  6. Starting and Leading New Gatherings: A practical guide for forming simple, biblical churches—in homes, neighborhoods, and relational networks—rooted in Scripture, shared life, prayer, fellowship, meals, and obedience to Jesus.

Where to Go Next

If you’re new, Start Here is your front door. From here, you can explore our framework in more detail and begin walking the simple, biblical path of making disciples in your network.