Disciple Church
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Mission Statement
We pursue the Biblical values and teachings of the early church to create a community that follows Jesus in today's culture. Each week, we worship together, have classes together, and have fun together at our location. But more than "going" to a church, we value BEING the church. It is our desire that from outside the walls of our church that we would function as a community of people who live AS the church all week long.
About This Cause
DISCIPLE CHURCH EXISTS TO TRAIN DISCIPLES OF JESUS TO IMPACT THE WORLD. Our definition of a disciple is one who grows as a WORSHIPPER in a COMMUNITY as a MISSIONAL FOLLOWER of Jesus who impacts the world. We wish to see this take place in all areas of Disciple Church's ministry. UPWARD: WOR•SHIP We were designed and created to worship God. Our desire is to grow in intimacy with God and to worship Him only. We want to see our worship expressed beyond the church walls into our daily activities. We desire our worship to be expressed in creativity and in beauty. We want to ascribe praise and worth worthy unto God! "Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual act of worship." - Romans 12:1 TO GROW IN OUR WORSHIP We desire to be worshippers in all areas of our life, seeking to create a culture of worship. We desire to express our love for God and learn the Word of God in a variety of ways, reflecting the diversity of learning styles and temperaments that people are created with. We desire to utilize the arts as a creative expression of worship because we are created in the image of God, who is the ultimate creator! We try to incorporate prayer everywhere in our community, as prayer shows our dependency upon God. We desperately seek the Holy Spirit's leading and direction for Disciple Church and do not rely only on human strategies for ministry. We desire to have communities developed for those interested in art, music, theater, and film. INWARD: COM·MU·NI·TY God exists in a community as Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. We who are created in the image of God were also created to exist in community. The church is designed to function as a community. Jesus taught his followers to love one another as the primary way for others to know we are His disciples. The church should also function as a family who encourages, prays, supports and equips one another while on the mission together. The church is not a meeting, nor a place, but a "family." "A NEW COMMAND I GIVE YOU: LOVE ONE ANOTHER. AS I HAVE LOVED YOU, SO YOU MUST LOVE ONE ANOTHER. BY THIS ALL MEN WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE MY DISCIPLES, IF YOU LOVE ONE ANOTHER." - JOHN 13:34-35 The primary function of Disciple Church's leadership is to focus on training and building leaders who serve the community, so that it's not just the paid staff caring for the community, but the community caring for and sustaining itself. We also value family and want to enable families to worship together so that the children and the teens feel part of the church, rather than a segment of the church. Because of the complexity of being a church, we see "community" as being broken down into smaller settings, since that cannot happen in a large worship gathering once a week. TO GROW IN COMMUNITY: We have Growth Groups after Sunday worship service. The heart of these groups is to emulate the Early Church (Acts 2:20, Colossians 4:15) and its practice of meeting in smaller groups to study, pray and do life together. We see the larger weekend worship gathering as a collection of these growth group communities. We have a life stage or affinity groups within the larger community (ministry to women, mens, college, youth, etc). We worship together with families to allow children to worship and learn together with their families in the larger gathering. "IT WAS HE WHO GAVE SOME TO BE APOSTLES, SOME TO BE PROPHETS, SOME TO BE EVANGELISTS, AND SOME TO BE PASTORS AND TEACHERS, TO PREPARE GOD'S PEOPLE FOR WORKS OF SERVICE, SO THAT THE BODY OF CHRIST MAY BE BUILT UP." - EPHESIANS 4:11-13 OUTWARD: MIS•SION•AL To be missional is to be other focused, with the goal of expressing and sharing the love of Jesus with the world around us. The church was not meant to be withdrawn, isolated, or to exist only to meet its own needs. Rather, the church is to be in the world (but not OF the world, John 17). Being "missional" means that we will exist for the sake of inviting others into a relationship with Jesus Christ who calls us to live a kingdom life here and now. "..YOU WILL RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES ON YOU; AND YOU WILL BE MY WITNESSES IN JERUSALEM, AND IN ALL JUDEA AND SAMARIA, AND TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. - ACTS 1:8 TO GROW OUR MISSION: We will take the commands of Jesus seriously and do all that we can to see others experience the Kingdom of God and the Good News of Jesus. We will remain pure and holy, yet never disconnecting from the culture around us. We will passionately strive to share with those who have rejected the Christian faith experience the light and love of Jesus through our life. We will see missions as holistic adventure - both local and global We will continue to partner with other ministries, such as KCCC (at SJSU) in order to disciple people unto Jesus. FORWARD: "DIS•CI•PLES OF JE•SUS" Disciples of Jesus are to live as Jesus lived, walk as Jesus walked and love as Jesus loved. This is how we are to live out our lives. Therefore, we strive to set a deep culture of Scriptural study and discussion in our community in order to help us grow in our love for God and people. We want to view the world and culture through the Biblical lens, not the other way around. We realize that we must become thinkers and theologians if we are serious about being disciples who are missional in today's culture. "...AND HOW FROM INFANCY YOU HAVE KNOWN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, WHICH ARE ABLE TO MAKE YOU WISE FOR SALVATION THROUGH FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS. ALL SCRIPTURE IS GOD-BREATHED AND IS USEFUL FOR TEACHING, REBUKING, CORRECTING AND TRAINING IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, SO THAT ALL GOD'S PEOPLE MAY BE THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED FOR EVERY GOOD WORK." - 2 TIMOTHY 3:15-17 TO GROW AS DISCIPLE: We offer Kingdom University classes to help the community dig deeper into the Scriptures. We teach through the books of the Bible in our worship gatherings in order to better understand the Word of God. We offer One-Year long discipleship classes led by our pastors and leaders. Growth Groups discuss sermons on the weekly basis.