The Gathering Network

What is the Gathering Network?

The Gathering Network is a community of like-minded, gospel-centered leaders. We share the following commitments:

  • Our global vision is to start, strengthen, and multiply churches by building up the body of Christ in four key areas: in homes, in cities, in regions, and throughout the world. We pursue this vision by producing and utilizing training resources in evangelism, discipleship, and leadership development.

  • Our mission is to make disciples of all nations (Matt. 28:18–20; Mark 13:10; 14:9; Luke 24:44–49; John 20:21–23; Acts 1:8; 22:21; 26:16–18).

  • Our focus is training men and women to evangelize non-Christians and disciple Christians within their personal networks—including family members, friends, and neighbors.

  • Our underlying goal is to align our ministry to the way the resurrected and reigning Jesus led his apostles—a series of commitments and a cyclical pattern of activities we label as The Apostolic Cycle.

  • For a concise overview of our ministry approach—from evangelism to discipleship to leadership development, please see the Implementation page.

This website is designed to facilitate conversations between seasoned leaders and emerging ones. It also serves as a platform to recruit and train new leaders for your ministry. For your convenience, we offer 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: Evangelism, Discipleship, and Leadership Development

  • Gathering in Homes: The Weekly Assembly of the Church

  • Apostolic Alignment: Our Underlying Goal

  • Core Concepts: Our Unifying Vocabulary

Our Leadership Development Process

  • The Path of Church Leaders

Our Training Resources

  • Evangelism Training

  • Discipleship Training

  • Leadership 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)

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 with you 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.