The Journey
"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.
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. You are free to take these steps as quickly or slowly as you desire. If you have questions or would like more information, contact us at info@forward.church or 770-828-5826.
Put Roots Down
Read “The Gospel of Peace” and “Grace the Power to Change” by Dr. Jim Richards (Available in our bookstore). These books will fast-track your understanding of our approach to the finished work of Jesus Christ and your new creation identity in him.
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 will be the things you incorporate into your life. We will equip and encourage you to trust God and practically live a life influenced by God's spirit that lives in you.
Find a place to serve: We don’t need you to “catch our vision,” we want you to get your own vision and follow Jesus as you feel led. That may mean you get involved with a ministry we already have in place but that may also 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
Once you’ve put roots down and taken the first 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 the finished work of Jesus and discover an unshakable trust in the character of God.
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.
If you find that you’re interested in deeper learning, we offer a series of courses and resources to increase your capacity to minister the Gospel of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ to your family and others.
Life Development Resources
Designed to help you move forward in every of life. These are typically facilitated on Wednesday nights throughout the year.
Communication & Behavior Patterns – Understand yourself and how to communicate better with others. We use the DiSC Profile in this course. This course will give you tools to apply in your marriage, at work and with your children.
Setting Boundaries & Overcoming Your Past – Discover how judging yourself and others has caused you pain all your life and how to be free from the pain of the past.
5 Love Languages – Invest in your relationship with your spouse and learn to reflect God’s glory in your marriage.
Who Is God? – At Forward you may find yourself experiencing a shift in how you see God. While we are committed to the Bible, we want to help you see God through the person of Jesus rather than your circumstances or misunderstandings from the Old Covenant.
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. Discover how to communicate the Gospel in a way that keeps Jesus at the center and helps people understand their value to God.
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