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
After moving to Louisville and searching nine long months unsuccessfully for a church where the Bible was carefully exposited, we found ourselves at Sojourn one memorable Sunday evening. I still remember the emotions I had when the service concluded – I not only thought it, I felt it – “I’m home!” One of the first things I noticed about Sojourn that first night was how “real” the people seemed. The very first person I met that night invited my family to visit their community group. Even though before we moved we had attended a church with solid Biblical teaching, never before had I experienced true Gospel-centered teaching along with true community.
The combination of excellent gospel-centered preaching and teaching, training and community helped me to realize the depth of my sins and the magnitude of my need for forgiveness and grace. Opening up and sharing, in a loving community which faithfully pointed me back to the Gospel by reinforcing the weekly teaching from the pulpit, unpacked a new level of understanding the Gospel which I hadn’t experienced before. Then, in the spring of 2007, the Sojourn School of Gospel Transformation offered an 11-week course called “How People Change” and the depths of my own sinfulness was radically exposed to me. Through the preaching, teaching, and community of Sojourn, God was faithful to reveal the true state of my sinful heart.