Our vision is to see the Gospel transform everything – ourselves as individuals, our church, our city, and the world.
By 2020, we desire to see that vision expressed in our church as a body of thousands of people, gathering in locations throughout the Louisville area, and planting churches all over the world that draw many more un-churched people into a relationship with God.
He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!”
—Revelation 21:5
How has Jesus used the ministries of Sojourn to transform my life?
If this question was asked of me only a few years years ago before coming to Sojourn, I would have boasted of my progress of becoming more like Christ. You would have heard me report on my obedient response to Christ’s call upon my life or my faithful transformation into an effective spiritual leader of my family. I basically would have told you that my life had been transformed in as much as I had become a better Christian. Thankfully, those things would not be true today.
Specifically and primarily through intentional community, the faithful preaching of the Word, and the training received through Sojourn Counseling, today I realize that my life has been changed by Christ, not through my being a better Christian, but through the realization that I am thoroughly in need of a Savior.
I see this manifested in two ways:
First, I understand that I am more of a sinner today than any other day previously in my life. My mind, heart and cravings are thoroughly filled with idolatrous thoughts. I continuously crave the desires of my flesh above the desires of the Spirit.
Second, I am in more need of Christ and the gospel today than any other day previously in my life. The weight of my sin before a holy God has transformed my understanding of my need for the gospel. Thankfully, the realization of these two profound thoughts has transformed both how and why I love God and others.
So, it is now with great joy that I know God’s work in me is not complete and I know it never will be in this lifetime. I know that as I seek to unswervingly follow Christ, I will swerve. As I seek to humble myself before others, I will be full of pride. Yet, I pray for God’s grace to humbly confess my sin to Him and others, repent, seek reconciliation and take refuge in Christ.