Discipleship at Forward
Make the Journey
Make the Journey from a BELIEVER to a DISCIPLE to a SERVANT to a LEADER. The Journey is our discipleship path designed to help you and your family become whole through God’s love, establish your heart in his transformative grace, and equip you in the ministry of reconciliation.
It starts with the first 3 Steps:
Discover Forward
Rooted & Grounded
Purpose & Passion
Once you have completed these 3 Steps, you will be well acclimated to out theological perspective, our philosophy of church and leadership, and you’ll be well on your way to walking out the passions God has placed in your heart. We’re excited to walk with you through Your Journey!
Your Part…
Show up and connect: In addition to attending Sunday church gatherings, start meeting people, attend Equip, and check out the Men’s and Women’s gatherings. While we’d love to see you every time our doors are open, we also know you have a life, but we hope to see you often!
Apply Sunday’s teachings: We believe the teachings in the Bible will change your life. We want to help you apply God's ways and the teachings of Jesus in your life in a practical way. There may be some things you need to learn, but what will really help you is what you incorporate into your life. We will equip and encourage you to trust God and to live a life influenced by God's Spirit who lives in you.
Find a place to serve: We don’t need you to “catch our vision”; we want you to develop your own vision and follow Jesus as you feel led. That may mean you get involved with a ministry we already have in place, or it may mean you share what’s on your heart. If we can support your passion and calling, we’ll work together to help you fulfill your call.
Grow In Grace
Once you’ve put roots down and taken the 3 Steps, we encourage you to steward your freedom at Forward well. We will not tell you what we need you to do for us, we want to help you discover your call.
We will equip you to grow into the leader God has called you to be in whatever arena of life you’re in, whether that be in your family, at your workplace, or in day-to-day life. Our goal is to help you discover your new creation identity in Christ, so you’ll become rock-solid confident in the character of God. We want to help you know who you are as a result of Jesus' finished work and discover an unshakable trust in God's character.
We encourage all members to serve, but we want you to serve in your area of passion or calling. We don't want to use you to build an organization, we want to use the organization to build you.
Serving & Reaching Your Community
We offer continual outreach, evangelism, and gifts training. We want to help you develop a lifestyle of evangelism through which the gifts of God’s indwelling Spirit naturally flow through you. We’ll empower you to communicate the Gospel in a way that keeps Jesus at the center and helps people understand their value to God. Check out our evangelism page, we have cards with a QR code you can give out that walks people through the Gospel, it’s an effective tool that has helped many people come to know Jesus!
Fulfill Your Calling
Forward is active in foreign missions, international conferences, church planting, and global media. If you find that you are called to the ministry in any capacity, we can help you become equipped for the area you’re called. We offer an in-depth internship that will focus on your area of passion and calling