Why We Exist: Enduring Challenges of the Church
and the Way of Jesus and His Apostles
From the beginning—from roughly AD 30 to 95—Jesus trained his followers in a simple, multiplying pattern of life and ministry that spread from Jerusalem to the nations. His apostles learned to proclaim the gospel, form communities, raise up leaders, and strengthen the churches through the Word, prayer, fellowship, and the Spirit’s power. That apostolic way gave ordinary believers a clear, concrete pathway they could follow and pass on. Yet many believers and leaders today lack the clarity, direction, and biblical pattern Jesus gave his apostles.
We exist to help the church recover Jesus’s vision and mission—and to walk again in his apostolic pattern of evangelism, discipleship, and leadership development—so that believers mature, leaders multiply, and churches reproduce for the glory of Jesus’s name among the nations. We are retrieving the apostolic way of AD 30–95 and expressing it today through simple, modern pathways, tools, and resources that believers can practice in homes, neighborhoods, cities, and regions.
1. Vision
The Challenge We See: Many churches desire to “reach the world for Christ” but lack a clear, biblical vision for their own neighborhoods, cities, regions, and the nations. The result is sincere activity without a shared picture of what Jesus intends to build through his people.
The Way of Jesus We Pursue: We pursue Jesus’s global vision to start, strengthen, and multiply disciples, leaders, and churches in homes and throughout cities, regions, and the world. In the first century, the apostles saw the church as one body expressed in households, cities, regions, and across the nations. We are recovering that same multi-layered vision today so that every local work sees itself as part of Jesus’s larger plan to fill the earth with communities of believers under his lordship.
2. Mission
The Challenge We See: Believers are busy with church activities but are often unclear how Jesus’s mission shapes their everyday relationships and priorities. “Mission” becomes something that happens on platforms or trips, rather than in conversations, households, and networks.
The Way of Jesus We Pursue: We pursue Jesus’s mission to make disciples in our networks, cities, and among the nations, so that every believer knows how to share their faith and disciple others. The apostles understood their calling as bringing about “the obedience of faith…for his name among all the Gentiles” (Rom. 1:5). We are recovering that same focus by helping believers see their friendships, families, workplaces, and neighborhoods as the first fields where the obedience of faith is meant to grow.
3. Strategy
The Challenge We See: Most churches lack a simple, biblical strategy that ordinary believers can actually practice. Without a clear pathway, disciple-making becomes vague, overwhelming, or dependent on programs—and the core habits that fueled the early church (Word, prayer, fasting) are often treated as optional or occasional.
The Way of Jesus We Pursue: We follow a simple, reproducible pattern rooted in the apostolic way (AD 30–95). At the center is deep communion with God through the Word, prayer, and fasting—the practices through which believers listen to God, align with his will, and receive strength and boldness for mission. From this center flows one simple pathway expressed in five interconnected movements: (1) Serve to meet practical needs, (2) Seek to find receptive people, (3) Invite to discover the Christian message, (4) Gather to grow in biblical community, and (5) Coach to develop new leaders. These five movements form a unified system—each strengthening and depending on the others—and when even one is neglected, the whole process slows or stops.
4. Meal-Based Gatherings Centered on the Lord’s Supper
The Challenge We See: Church life is often centered on weekly services and structured programs rather than shared life together around Jesus and his table. Many believers attend church but rarely experience the close, household-level fellowship the New Testament assumes.
The Way of Jesus We Pursue: We gather in homes to share meals, the Lord’s Supper, Scripture, prayer, and mutual ministry—cultivating a pattern of life that is relational, Spirit-led, and easily reproducible. The first churches met from house to house, devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching, the breaking of bread, and prayers. We are recovering that pattern by placing simple, meal-based gatherings at the core of our church life, where believers can know and care for one another in ways that can multiply across streets, neighborhoods, and cities.
5. Resources to Get Men Teaching Others Faster
The Challenge We See: Many men desire to lead spiritually—in their homes, neighborhoods, and churches—but feel under-equipped to open Scripture and teach others with clarity and confidence. As a result, responsibility defaults to a few “experts,” and potential leaders remain on the sidelines.
The Way of Jesus We Pursue: We equip men with simple, Scripture-centered, discussion-based tools—like The Discipleship Series—so they can quickly and faithfully begin teaching and discipling others. Paul expected faithful men to “teach others also” (2 Tim. 2:2); our resources are designed to make that expectation realistic again. By providing clear guides, good questions, and solid doctrine, we help men step into teaching and shepherding roles much sooner, in ways that can multiply to new households and fellowships.
6. Leadership Pipeline
The Challenge We See: Few churches have a clear way to identify, develop, and send out new leaders beyond a small core of staff or volunteers. Leadership often becomes positional rather than relational and developmental, and future generations of leaders are left unprepared.
The Way of Jesus We Pursue: We cultivate a simple, relational leadership pathway that trains believers to shepherd, teach, and lead churches across generations and locations. In the New Testament, elders and leaders were raised up from within communities and entrusted with real responsibility. Our leadership pipeline follows that same pattern: helping disciples grow into servants, servants into leaders, and leaders into trainers who can equip others. The goal is a steady stream of men and women who can lead gatherings, plant new churches, and strengthen existing ones.
7. Coaching and Accountability Structures
The Challenge We See: Believers often lack ongoing support and accountability, so good intentions fade and obedience to Jesus stalls. Leaders especially can feel isolated, unseen, and unsure whether they are being faithful.
The Way of Jesus We Pursue: We foster simple rhythms of coaching and accountability—one-to-one and in groups—to help believers get established in the faith and stay fruitful in his mission. In the apostolic pattern, churches and leaders were revisited, strengthened, and encouraged; no one was left to figure things out alone. We are recovering that pattern through regular coaching conversations, practical check-ins, and shared reflection on Scripture, so that leaders and churches remain aligned, encouraged, and fruitful over time.
Conclusion
We are not immune to these challenges. Yet by God’s grace, we are learning to walk again in the way of Jesus and his apostles—a path that is simple, relational, biblical, and Spirit-empowered. As we help leaders recover the practices of the first-century church (AD 30–95), we are translating that apostolic way into clear, modern pathways of vision, mission, training, and tools. Our desire is to see believers strengthened, leaders raised up, and churches multiplying across households, neighborhoods, cities, and regions for the glory of Jesus.
These challenges and commitments prepare the soil for everything that follows.
Our vision is to start, strengthen, and multiply churches in homes, cities, regions, and throughout the world.
Our mission is to make disciples of all nations through relational networks.
Our strategy is the Apostolic Cycle—the simple, biblical pattern of evangelizing the lost, strengthening believers in community, and developing leaders who plant and shepherd new churches.
In everything we do, we return to Jesus’s original design so that the gospel spreads with clarity, simplicity, and Spirit-given power—the apostolic way, expressed in pathways and practices that ordinary believers can live out today.