The Journey’s DNA
The Journey’s DNA
The following lessons are from the Mission Team Gatherings of The Journey Church before we covenanted on Palm Sunday 2024. These 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 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.
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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?
Relational Evangelism
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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 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.
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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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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.”