We’ve provided an outline below of both our Ministry and Theological Distinctives. However, the best way to understand more is to have a conversation with us. We’d love to discuss what makes our network unique and if we’d be a good fit for your ministry context. You can schedule a discussion with us by clicking below.

Ministry Distinctives

Our Mission

We exist to inspire people to follow Jesus by engaging them in the life and mission of the local church.

• Growing Relationship: We define a growing relationship with Jesus Christ as growth in three vital relationships: intimacy with God, community with other believers, and influence with the unchurched.

• Spiritual Formation: We believe that we cooperate with God in growing people’s faith through the five faith catalysts: practical teaching, private disciplines, personal ministry, providential relationships, and pivotal circumstances.

Our Vision

We create, operate, and equip churches designed to attract and engage unchurched people.

• Recognizing the gravitational pull for all churches is always toward insiders, we are committed to focusing on people we are trying to reach (outsiders) rather than the reached (insiders).

• We believe church should be the safest place on earth for everyone to talk about anything.

• We manage the tension between truth and grace. Jesus was the fullness of, not the balance of, grace and truth. As a result...

  • We distinguish between theology and ministry—between what we believe and how we behave based on what we believe.

  • We prefer to be known by what we are for, not what or whom we’re against.

  • We emphasize having conversations over creating policies.

OUR Principles

We practice a strategic model of ministry designed to move people into community.

• Irresistible Environments: We think Jesus was irresistible and, therefore, his church should be as well. So, we are committed to creating irresistible environments that serve as steps toward community.

• Engaging Worship Services: We create relevant weekend services that make people want to come back and take next steps. We define relevance as an engaging presentation with helpful content given in an appealing context.

• Groups Model: We believe life change happens best in the context of intentional relationships, and small groups provide a healthy on-ramp for intentional relationships to form. That’s why we believe circles are better than rows.

• Prioritize Children’s/Student Ministries: We want this generation of young people to be the next generation of church leaders, so we prioritize and invest heavily in these ministries.

Theological Distinctives

Within the Irresistible Church Network, we strive to focus on unity around our core beliefs without allowing peripheral matters of faith to distract from our vision of creating churches that unchurched people love in every community. It’s not that peripheral faith issues are unimportant—they are. We simply believe that unity within the church is more important and that our collective ability to serve and reach our communities better represents the gospel to our world.

• Our Core Confession: We believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God; that he died for our sins according to the Scriptures; that he was buried; that he was raised from the dead; that he was seen. (Matthew 16:16; 1 Corinthians 15:3–6)

• About the Scriptures: We believe the entire Bible is the inspired Word of God and that men were moved by the Spirit of God to write the very words of Scripture. Therefore, we believe the Bible is without error.

• About God: We believe in one God who exists in three distinct persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We believe that Jesus Christ is the second member of the Trinity (the Son of God) who became flesh to reveal God to humanity and to become the Savior of the lost world.

• About Humanity: We believe that all people were created in the image of God to have fellowship with him but became alienated in that relationship through sinful disobedience. As a result, people are incapable of regaining a right relationship with God through their own efforts.

• About Salvation: We believe that the blood of Jesus Christ, shed on the cross, provides the sole basis for the forgiveness of sin. Therefore, God freely offers salvation to those who place their faith in the death and resurrection of Christ as sufficient payment for their sin.

• About the Christian Life: We believe all Christians should live for Christ and not for themselves. By obedience to the Word of God and daily yielding to the Spirit of God, every believer should mature and be conformed to the image of Christ.

• About the Church: We believe that the church is the body of Christ, of which Jesus Christ is the head. The members of the church are those who have trusted by faith the finished work of Christ. The purpose of the church is to glorify God by loving him and by making him known to the lost world.