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Growth happens best in community. Find an authentic community designed to care for you and help you get connected.
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Finding a church can be hard, especially in only one week. Try Refinery for 5 weeks to find our whether we're the community for you.
Your Journey In Community
Spiritual growth is all about direction, not perfection. While it's rarely linear, knowing where you are in your journey of refinement to Jesus can help you find the right next step to take.
Discover each stage of the journey and find ways to grow right where you are.
4. Lead
4. Lead
As you continue to grow in your faith, you’ll find that God gives you opportunities to tell other people about Jesus. This part of the journey is all about sharing your story so that others find and follow Jesus. That’s the mission of every disciple. It’s a journey, not a destination. It’s about direction, not perfection.
Baptism
- Matthew 28:19-20
“Go then, to all people everywhere and make them my disciples. Baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and then teach them to obey everything I have commanded you.”
In Jesus’ own words, being a disciple involves baptism.
Baptism isn’t just a ritual or ceremony. The New Testament teaches that a personal commitment to Jesus is a relationship of faith, and that faith is demonstrated and acted upon in baptism.
When someone is baptized, they are publicly placing their faith—their ultimate trust and loyalty—in Jesus for this life and for eternity. It’s both a personal proclamation and a communal celebration of a person trusting in Jesus. Through baptism, they affirm that He alone is the leader of their life and their only basis for eternity with God in Heaven.
At Refinery, we practice baptism as the first followers of Christ did: by immersing into water an individual making a personal faith choice to become a follower of Jesus.
