About Proximity

Discipleship-Driven


Proximity Ministries is a discipleship-driven mission aiming to recover the lost art of discipleship and to promote the early church model as recorded in the biblical book of Acts when Jesus Christ, close relationships, and discipleship-apologetics were the pillars of Christianity (Acts 2:42–47).

Proximity’s Personal Mission

 
I (Jon Scott Birch) act as a relational resource toward personal faith/spiritual consulting and comprehending the times concerning Israel and prophecy (1 Chronicles 12:32). Indeed, confidently discerning prophetic truth amidst the present political climate enables God’s love to dispel all fear (1 John 4:18). I likewise offer edifying and educational assistance to the ministry endeavors of individuals, small groups, and churches – including house churches. My writing and publishing of Christ-glorifying books coupled with developing diversely tailored curricula provides further instructional enrichment toward a spiritually and emotionally healthy discipleship.

Discipleship Practically Applied

 
For over 25 years I have made myself available to people spiritually and socially, primarily operating under the radar and close to home as the Holy Spirit would lead. In recent years, however, the Lord God has granted opportunities toward growing the ministry He continues working through me, reaching an expanding personal mission field. Foremost, this is accomplished by facilitating/leading individual, small group, or class discussions and studies that establish a biblical philosophy of discipleship to be employed as a lifestylerather than as a part-time recreation or mere intellectual assent. Such instruction always leads to comprehensive discernment of effective biblical interpretation and application, relational theology and discipleship, apologetics and eschatology, and the history (past, present, future) of geopolitics and Israel.
 
 


Connect with Proximity for Ministry Cooperation and Partnership in Discipleship

 

  • Facilitation of individual and small or large group Bible discussion/studies (at home or church)
  • Prayerful establishment of home groups (independent or church affiliated)
  • Classes/curricula on discipleship/spiritual disciplines, apologetics, prophecy, relational evangelism, etc
  • Personal discipleship/spiritual development
  • Equipping disciples to prayerfully identify spiritual gifting/mission
  • Equipping churches to discern the times (1 Chronicles 12:32)
  • Exhorting disciples/churches to discern between church politics and biblical policy
  • Exhorting disciples/churches toward biblical servant-leadership accountable to Christ above institution and presumptuous priest
  • Advising disciples/churches to comprehend and implement church discipline as sanctioned by Scripture
  • Testifying of Christ via speaking and teaching in various contexts
  • Prayerfully counseling souls weary from church-hopping, from bearing the cares of the world, and from debilitating spiritual warfare

I humbly yet earnestly ask for your bold and steadfast prayers as I continue the kingdom work Jesus has given me. Godspeed you in your own endeavors!

Proximity is also a registered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit faith-based entity, assuring that all financial gifts/donations to Proximity Ministries are appropriately leveraged toward supporting the ministry and administering the goodwill, relational care, counsel, instruction in righteousness, and diverse teaching methods purposed toward glorifying Jesus Christ.
 
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The Chi-Rho is one of the earliest Christian symbols, formed by superimposing the first two (capital) letters—chi (X) and rho (Ρ)—of the Greek Χριστός (Christos—Anointed One, Messiah). After the fourth century AD this image appeared often in Christian art throughout the Roman Empire, as well as in many other contexts (see Byzantine coin below). Yet even today it is used in/by churches/ministries worldwide to represent Jesus Christ’s victory over sin and death. Proximity has adapted this symbol and expanded it via the “M” for Ministries.