The Gathering Network

The Gathering Network is a group of like-minded, gospel-centered leaders.

  1. We gather in homes to evangelize and disciple within our neighborhoods AND we gather in other settings for equipping leaders (Acts 2:46; 5:42; 20:7, 20; 1 Cor. 11:17–34; Eph. 4:11–16; Heb. 10:19–25).

  2. Our focus is equipping men to be evangelists, disciplers, and developers of leaders in their families, churches, and neighborhoods.

  3. Our global vision is to start, strengthen, and multiply churches—building up the church in four categories: (1) in homes, (2) in cities, (3) in regions, and (4) throughout the world. We pursue this vision primarily by producing and utilizing training resources in the areas of evangelism, discipleship, and leadership development.

  4. We designed this website to facilitate conversations between more established leaders and less established leaders. From a different perspective, you can use this website to recruit men and women into your ministry and train them to be leaders.

  5. We have print-friendly versions of our main diagrams to help you teach and lead others.

On the home page, you will find information about:

Our Approach to Ministry

  • Vision: Starting, Strengthening, & Multiplying Churches

  • Mission: Make Disciples of All Nations

  • Values and Purposes

  • Strategy: The Apostolic Cycle

  • Implementation

  • Gathering in Homes: The Weekly Assembly of God’s People

  • Apostolic Alignment (Our Underlying Goal)

Our Leadership Development Process

  • The Path of Church Leaders

Our Training Resources

  • Evangelism Training

  • Discipleship Training

  • Pastoral Training

Supporting Documents

  • The Message: The Apostles’ Proclamation to Non-Christians

  • Sound Doctrine: The Apostles’ Teaching for Christians

  • Statement of Faith: The Baptist Faith and Message

  • The Kingdom of God (in development)

  • The Gospel: The Good News of Jesus’s Death and Resurrection

  • Baptism: Death, Burial, and Resurrection with Christ

  • The Lord’s Supper: Remembering, Celebrating, and Proclaiming Jesus’s Death

  • Elders (in development)

  • Men and Women: Together in Ministry (in development)

  • Church-based Evangelism (in development)

  • Church-based Discipleship (in development)

  • Church-based Counseling (in development)

  • Church-based Leadership

  • Church-based Leadership Development (in development)

  • Church-based Church Planting (in development)

Some of the most important pages to cast vision and stimulate dialogue (whether one-on-one or in small groups) are

To that end, we are developing “Questions for Reflection and Discussion” questions for many of the web pages to stimulate dialogue.

We would be delighted to partner together in the advancement of the gospel—the good news that Jesus died and God raised him from the dead to save sinners. In obedience to Jesus’s Great Commission, that is the central message we must take to our neighborhoods and to the nations.