MODULE 5
My Next Faithful Step
Kingdom Voyage has brought us through a journey of receiving, discovering, practicing, and sharing. Now we bring those pieces together and ask what faithful participation might look like in this season of life.
God has formed, gifted, taught, and entrusted something to each of us. Participation begins by discerning what faithfulness looks like in this season—and then taking the next faithful step.
Considering everything you have learned about Jesus, yourself, and Keys Vineyard, what is your next faithful step?
WATCH
Module 5 Teaching
Begin with this teaching video. We will look back over the Kingdom Voyage, reflect on WISE and GATE, bring your discoveries together, and consider what faithful participation might look like for you now.
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My Next Faithful StepLOOKING BACK
Notice What God Has Already Been Showing You
The purpose of looking back is not simply to review what you have completed. We look back for clues that may help us recognize what faithfulness looks like next.
RECEIVE
Life in Jesus
DISCOVER
How God Has Shaped You
PRACTICE
Growing in Life with Jesus
SHARE
Joining Jesus in His Mission
PARTICIPATE
My Next Faithful Step
Pause and Reflect
TWO MORE WINDOWS
Stewardship and Calling
WISE and GATE add two more perspectives to what you have already discovered. Remember: assessments provide language and clues. They do not determine your future.
What Has God Entrusted to Me?
WISE helps us reflect on how we steward what God has entrusted to us—including money, time, resources, responsibility, generosity, and opportunities for Kingdom faithfulness.
Biblical stewardship includes the whole of life: time, abilities, spiritual gifts, experiences, relationships, financial resources, opportunities, and responsibilities.
Where Might I Participate?
GATE helps us consider calling, ministry direction, present opportunities, and faithful next steps in service. It gives us language for asking better questions about how God may be inviting us to participate.
A result is not an assignment.
Calling is discerned over time through prayer, Scripture, relationships, opportunities, service, wisdom, and the fruit that grows as we follow Jesus.
PUTTING THE PICTURE TOGETHER
Five Windows for Discernment
No single assessment tells your story. Together, these five windows can help you notice patterns, possibilities, and recurring themes.
How am I wired?
Notice personality tendencies, strengths, preferences, and ways you naturally approach people and situations.
How might God work through me?
Notice ways God may use your gifts and strengths for the good of others and His Kingdom.
Where am I in my journey with Jesus?
Notice your present spiritual season and what God may be forming in you now.
What has God entrusted to me?
Notice the time, abilities, experiences, relationships, resources, responsibilities, and opportunities entrusted to you.
Where might I participate in God’s work?
Notice ministry directions and opportunities that may be worth exploring.
ASSESSMENT BECOMES DISCERNMENT
Look for Themes, Not Labels
Assessments become most useful when they lead to discernment.
Look for recurring themes rather than expecting every result to agree perfectly. Human beings are more complex than assessment categories.
What themes keep appearing across my results?
Where do I seem to come alive when helping other people?
What kinds of needs or opportunities do I naturally notice?
What have other people consistently affirmed in me?
What might God be inviting me to explore—not necessarily forever, but in this season?
We are looking for the next faithful step. Clarity often grows while we serve, practice, learn, relate to others, and follow Jesus.
FROM DISCERNMENT TO PARTICIPATION
A Healthy Participation Path
The goal is not simply to find a slot to fill. We want to help you discover places where you can contribute, grow, build relationships, and participate in what God is doing through His people.
Discover
Notice interests, gifts, experiences, needs, and themes that point toward an area worth exploring.
Conversation
Talk with a real ministry leader or someone who understands the opportunity. Conversation comes before commitment.
Opportunity
Identify something concrete you could observe, attend, help with, or explore.
Try Something
When appropriate, serve alongside others before making a long-term commitment.
Coaching
Receive encouragement, feedback, answers, and help interpreting what you are learning.
Belonging
Build relationships and experience yourself as a contributing member of the body.
Sometimes the best way to discern whether an opportunity fits is simply to try it, serve alongside others, receive feedback, and pay attention to the fruit that grows.
WHOLE-LIFE STEWARDSHIP
Participation Is Bigger Than a Volunteer Role
Everything God entrusts to us can become part of faithful Kingdom life.
Where might God be inviting me to make room?
What can I offer for the good of others?
What have I lived through that may help someone else?
Who has God placed around me?
What does faithful generosity look like for me?
What door may already be open in front of me?
What has God entrusted to me, and what might faithfulness look like now?
Busyness is not the same as faithfulness.
Faithfulness will not look identical for everyone. Your present season, responsibilities, capacity, and existing commitments matter. Sustainable boundaries can be part of wise stewardship.
QUESTIONS ARE WELCOME
What Do You Still Want to Understand?
Kingdom Voyage is also a place to ask honest questions. You do not need to have every question answered before taking your next step.
You may still have questions about theology, Vineyard distinctives, baptism, communion, church leadership, finances and giving, pastoral care, ministry philosophy, serving, or something else.
Keep the conversation going.
Some questions deserve more than a quick answer. If there is something you still want to understand, talk with one of our pastors or leaders so the conversation can continue.
REMEMBER
Your Next Step May Not Be a Volunteer Role
For one person, the next faithful step may be serving. For another, it may be receiving care, developing a Christian practice, pursuing baptism, becoming more connected to Christian community, beginning a generosity rhythm, asking a difficult question, or exploring leadership.
The goal is not to get everyone doing more. The goal is to respond faithfully to Jesus with what He has actually entrusted to us.
AFTER KINGDOM VOYAGE
LIFE — A Follow-Up Conversation
Kingdom Voyage
Helps you understand the church and your own journey more clearly.
LIFE
Can help the church understand you more fully and create a natural opportunity for continued conversation and connection.
LIFE is not a test you must pass to complete Kingdom Voyage. It is a follow-up tool and relational connection point.
THE VOYAGE CONTINUES
One Faithful Step at a Time
Life is received, not achieved.
Jesus is our life.
We follow Him one faithful step at a time.