Ephesians 4:12 tells us that church leaders are called “to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church.” The Greek word translated equip here is used in the Gospels to describe fishermen mending their broken nets. At Journey Church, we seek to mend lives and equip people for a life of spiritual passion, in which they will then give their lives away for the sake of God’s glory.

We believe that everything we have is really God’s, and we are just stewards, or managers, of the money and resources he’s given us. From a worldly perspective, we tend to view our resources in terms of scarcity and fear, but what we strive to become is a culture of people who follow Jesus and view our resources through a lens of faith and generosity. Instead of hoarding and wasting money on ourselves, we want to learn how to leverage those resources to expand God’s influence.