The Journey Map
The Journey Map is a Framework that tells The Story of Jesus and his disciples and allows people to locate themselves on their journey as they follow Jesus. The purpose of the framework is alignment with the living Jesus and the leading of the Spirit. It does this by using Christ’s teachings and healthy contextualization for more powerful Mission and Ministry. It can be used for processes of Personal Spiritual Growth, Relationship Improvement (friendship, marriage, coworkers), and Community Development (small groups, churches, organizations).
The Journey Map describes The Three Lands and The Seven Places of journey. It also includes Four Transitions that mark crossings into and out of the Lands. The Framework is intended for use as a map and not as a formula or linear process — it’s meant to help people to describe where they are and where they think God wants them to go, but it’s NOT MEANT to tell people what to do or take the place of the Father’s voice and leading.
Where to Start?
The Journey Map is designed to be comprehensive and rich — but it can feel a bit complicated trying to take it in a single bite. We recommend thinking through the framework in it’s simplest form: The Three Lands — and then adding layers once you get the hang of things.
The Complete Framework
The Journey Map is presented below in a table format with links to explanatory pages.
| The Land of Belonging “so we can belong to him” | The Land of Becoming “so we can become his family” | The Land of Believing “so we can believe in his Kingdom” | |
|---|---|---|---|
| (α) Heaven | |||
| Entrance: Incarnation | 2. The Story Zone to enter the potential and pain of our story | 4. Growth Journey to grow us on our journey with God | 6. Movement to rise empowering movement in the Spirit |
| 1. Mercy Mission God so loved the world that he sent Jesus… | (∴) Immersion to immerse us into God’s identity and family | (✛) The Cross to die showing us love overcomes sin and death | Exit: Iteration |
| 3. Revelation Rhythm to reveal God’s power over demon’s, disease, death, and dogma* | 5. Calling Into Gifts to call us into using our gifts to help others and glorify God | 7. Multiplication to spread his rule until he returns and recreates the world. | |
| (β) Earth |
* by “dogma”, we mean the opinions and traditions of people.
The Journey Map can be articulated as a “Napkin Drawing” like this — with positions on the map described as the main activity of all participants:
There are different visual representations of The Journey Map like The Story of Jesus, which tells the Gospel story according to the map:
