Mission Team Lessons

Mission Team Gatherings

The following lessons form the foundation of our church’s DNA, ranging from our mission and our values to our beliefs and our strategy. If you want to learn more about our church and what we are about these lessons are the perfect place to start.

Mission and Core Values

  • In this episode, Steven Hiller teaches on the mission of The Journey.

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  • In this episode, Mace Perez begins a series on The Journey's Core Values. Our first and most foundational value is that we want to be a Biblical church.

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  • In this episode, Mace continues our series on The Journey's Core Values. This lesson focuses on our Thoughtful value. We want to be a church full of members who know what Christians believe, why we believe it, and how it makes sense of our lives and the world.

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  • In this episode of The Journey Church Houston Podcast, Steven continues our series of lessons on The Journey’s Core Values. In this lesson, we discuss our Relational value. We want to be a church that journeys together where we live, work, and play.

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  • In this lesson, we discuss our Missional value. Everyone is already on a spiritual journey, and we get to walk alongside them. We call living intentional to this end being missional.

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In this series, we explore the mission and values of The Journey Church. We want to be a biblical, thoughtful, relational, and missional church that invites the city of Houston a journey to discover the truth, goodness, and beauty of the Christian Story.

Core Convictions

In this series, we explore the core convictions of The Journey Church. As a church that values thoughtfulness, we want to know what we believe and why we believe it. Together we walk through the Core Convictions of our Statement of Faith, discovering how the Christian Story reveals key truths to understanding who God is, who we are, and how we can make sense of the world.

  • In this episode Mace begins a new lesson series on The Journey’s Core Values. These are the beliefs we hold most dear because they are essential Christian beliefs. We start by discussing the most important and fundamental beliefs about God Himself.

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  • In this episode, Steven continues our series on The Journey’s Core Convictions. Here, he teaches us what we believe about humanity, the fall, and salvation. In other words, who are we and what were we made for? What went wrong? And what has God done, and what will God do to fix it?

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  • Mace continues our series on Core Convictions by teaching on the church. The word church conjures up all sorts of images and thoughts in people’s minds, some good, some maybe not so good. But what have Christians throughout history, around the world, and across denominational lines all agreed up regarding the church?

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  • In this episode Steven finishes our series on the Core Convictions of The Journey Church with Last Things. The conclusion and resolution of the Story. Our hope! What has the Christian church historically and consistently taught about where the history of the universe is heading, and how is that different, how is it truer, better, and more beautiful than the secular story?

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Relational Evangelism

  • Steven begins our series by introducing us to what evangelism is, why we too often don’t evangelize, why we should evangelize, and why relational evangelism, in particular, is important in this age.

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  • Mace continues our series in Relational Evangelism with our first waypoint - From Known to Unknown. We want to get to know our friends through asking good questions and active listening.

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  • In this episode Steven continues our series by teaching how we can guide someone from being known to being curious about the Christian Story. We do this through exposing and challenging plot holes in their worldview story, and by revealing the truth, goodness, and beauty of the Christian Story.

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  • In this session, Mace continues our Relational Evangelism series as we talk about how we can help people move from Curious to Believing by sharing the Good News of Jesus with them and journeying with them to overcome any obstacles they may have to belief.

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In this series, we explore our strategy for inviting people on a Journey to discover the truth, goodness, and beauty of the Christian Story. Through intentional relationships, we want our friends, neighbors, coworkers, and family members to be known, be curious, and believe in the Gospel at the center of the Christian Story.

The Journey’s Distinctives

In this series, we explore The Journey’s Distinctives. Our Distinctives are beliefs about which genuine Christians may disagree but that have a significant impact on the life and teaching ministry of our local church. Our goal in this series is to be clear about where we stand and create a culture of thoughtful, charitable dialogue regarding debated and potentially controversial theological issues.

  • Mace starts our series with our Ecclesiological Distinctives. We cover topics such as the nature of the local church and its relationship to the universal church, the offices and governance of the local church, the inclusion of children in the corporate worship gathering, the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and spiritual gifts like tongues and prophecy.

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  • Steven continues our series with our Doctrinal Distinctives. We cover topics such as the hermeneutics, the family, the doctrines of grace, the relationship between the church and Israel, and the Millenial Kingdom.

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The Journey’s Liturgy

In this episode, we explore the what, how, and why of The Journey’s liturgy. Christians have been gathering since the earliest days of the church on Sundays, the Lord’s Day, for the purpose of corporate worship. And every church’s corporate worship gathering follows some set pattern or order. The traditional word for this order is “liturgy,” which means “work of the people.”

  • Mace teaches about our liturgy, the order and pattern of our corporate worship.

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