How it all started...
Pastor Doug’s journey to planting The Way Congregation did not start in a seminary classroom or with a five-year plan. It began in the pews of a small Baptist church. As a boy, he memorized verses in Awana and learned to treasure Scripture through Sunday school teachers who patiently laid a foundation of faith. For that, he is forever grateful.
But even early on, he sensed there was more. The Bible felt like a single story that had been divided in two: an “Old Testament God” and a “New Testament God,” law on one side and grace on the other. That tension gnawed at him. He wanted to know if God’s plan really was split, or if there was a deeper unity waiting to be uncovered.
That hunger led him far beyond the familiar. After serving as a missionary in Bolivia, Doug traveled to Israel, where he studied Hebrew on a kibbutz and then enrolled at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. There, he immersed himself in biblical and modern Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, Greek, and other ancient languages, earning his MA in “The Bible and Its World.” The coursework was grueling, but it was life-changing. And while living in Israel, something unexpected happened. Doug kept the Sabbath, because that is what you did there. He celebrated the feasts, because that is what the whole nation did. At the time, he assumed those practices were only cultural, only for the Jews.
It took another dozen years of pastoring and teaching in California before the truth clicked into place. The Sabbath, the feasts, eating clean - these were not just “Jewish things.” They were God’s ways. His commandments were not divided into two sets of rules for two different peoples. In Yeshua, Jew and Gentile alike are grafted into the same covenant family, called to walk in the same ways.
That realization became the heartbeat of The Way Congregation, founded in 2016 when Doug and his family returned to Colorado. The name is simple and intentional: we just want to walk in God’s ways. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not arrogantly. Not with pretension. But faithfully. Humbly. Together.
Doug’s ministry carries both depth and humility because it has been forged through struggle, education, and lived experience. He has written and published books that dig deeply into Scripture (Corrupting the Image, God’s Divorce: The Bible’s Hidden Love Story, Immortal Dawn), spoken around the world, and taught in classrooms and churches. Yet he will be the first to say: “We do not have everything figured out.” At The Way, we are learning and walking this path alongside you.
If you have ever longed for a faith that connects Genesis to Revelation, that makes sense of God’s love story from beginning to end, and that lives out His Word in real time, you are in the right place.
Welcome to The Way.
But even early on, he sensed there was more. The Bible felt like a single story that had been divided in two: an “Old Testament God” and a “New Testament God,” law on one side and grace on the other. That tension gnawed at him. He wanted to know if God’s plan really was split, or if there was a deeper unity waiting to be uncovered.
That hunger led him far beyond the familiar. After serving as a missionary in Bolivia, Doug traveled to Israel, where he studied Hebrew on a kibbutz and then enrolled at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. There, he immersed himself in biblical and modern Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, Greek, and other ancient languages, earning his MA in “The Bible and Its World.” The coursework was grueling, but it was life-changing. And while living in Israel, something unexpected happened. Doug kept the Sabbath, because that is what you did there. He celebrated the feasts, because that is what the whole nation did. At the time, he assumed those practices were only cultural, only for the Jews.
It took another dozen years of pastoring and teaching in California before the truth clicked into place. The Sabbath, the feasts, eating clean - these were not just “Jewish things.” They were God’s ways. His commandments were not divided into two sets of rules for two different peoples. In Yeshua, Jew and Gentile alike are grafted into the same covenant family, called to walk in the same ways.
That realization became the heartbeat of The Way Congregation, founded in 2016 when Doug and his family returned to Colorado. The name is simple and intentional: we just want to walk in God’s ways. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not arrogantly. Not with pretension. But faithfully. Humbly. Together.
Doug’s ministry carries both depth and humility because it has been forged through struggle, education, and lived experience. He has written and published books that dig deeply into Scripture (Corrupting the Image, God’s Divorce: The Bible’s Hidden Love Story, Immortal Dawn), spoken around the world, and taught in classrooms and churches. Yet he will be the first to say: “We do not have everything figured out.” At The Way, we are learning and walking this path alongside you.
If you have ever longed for a faith that connects Genesis to Revelation, that makes sense of God’s love story from beginning to end, and that lives out His Word in real time, you are in the right place.
Welcome to The Way.
Walking the way Yeshua walked means we..
We are called to make disciples who walk like Yeshua walked. Taht means that we need a team of like-minded disciples who are committed to taking the good news to our communities, college campuses, and cities in the Denver area. Part
•Make Disciples
•Expect Miracles•Celebrate God’s Feasts
•Care for Others (Tikun Olam)
•Embrace Suffering for God’s glory
•Make Disciples
•Expect Miracles•Celebrate God’s Feasts
•Care for Others (Tikun Olam)
•Embrace Suffering for God’s glory