God in His grace
and providence has seen fit to bring together a people concerned with
His glory above all things. Emilio Ramos and Jason Jesuroga
(founding elders) felt the deep call of God to plant a biblical church
in Keller, TX. Through a series of events God led both of these men out
to Texas. Beginning with Emilio, sensing the call to move from
California to Texas and to seek God for vision and future ministry. By
faith, Emilio and his wife Trisha, moved to the Keller area.
Immediately upon their move, Emilio began a small bible study.
While meeting in a home and teaching through the book of John, God saw
fit to grow the size of Sovereign Joy (then) Bible Study; taking the
group from about eight to over fifty in less than a year. Pastor Jason,
his wife Christina, and their four children were currently in Maine
where Jay was pastoring a church for several years. God saw fit to
bring Jay to Sovereign Joy and soon after, the church, Sovereign Joy Community
Church (SJCC), was planted.
All glory and thanks be to God for what he has done in bringing
numerous families and brethren together for the work of the ministry.
Without giving all of the details of our testimony, constitution, and
history (which would take up a book in it of itself) Sovereign Joy has
had one sole vision since its infancy. Our desire is that God would be
made much of in the world, through Biblically sound preaching,
heartfelt worship, and a zealous passion to see the kingdom of God
advanced in all the earth through outreach and evangelism.
At SJCC the Word of Almighty God takes precedence. Above all else
we believe in the supremacy of rightly dividing the Word of truth
through expository proclamation. In an age of uncertainty,
skepticism, and easy-believism, SJCC is committed to displaying the
glory of God through the Word of God being preached and applied.
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In addition to this, what
may make SJCC so unique is its equal emphasis
upon heartfelt, God-centered worship and praise. We at SJCC have
seen far too many churches and movements settle for all head and no
heart or all heart and no head. We desire to strike a
balance of the two. God has given SJCC a vision for God
enthralled worship that is soaked in biblical truth and saturated with
glorifying God through biblical God-centered worship.
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Finally, we desire to
take all of our vision for preaching, theology, and worship and apply
it to practical outreach. We see the world as lost and
confused. Many who attend churches all around our local area are
being brought up by weak and faulty presentations of biblical
Christianity. As a result, false conversions are common place,
giving way to mass confusion and major misunderstandings of the true
nature of the faith. Therefore, much of our outreach is aimed at the
lost but also at the misinformed. We see a need for an
Apollos like ministry. We desire to teach people the way more
accurately that they might come to truly know Christ as Savior.
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Visitor FAQ
Emphasizing
theology and passion,
light and heat, spirit and truth,...
We desire to be a people devoted
to the Scriptures and committed to live for the glory of God.
Rather
than emphasizing church growth, or a seeker sensitive gospel
presentation, we desires to strike at something more biblical and
historic.
How
we do this...
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