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Forge began in 2023 with a simple conviction.
The greatest need in Australia is not better politics, better education or better economics.
Our greatest need is the gospel and for people to know Jesus.
Forge started as a ministry reaching men who were searching for purpose, identity and truth.
Men from every background—tradies, soldiers, professionals, fathers, students, retirees and those simply trying to work out life—began gathering around God's Word.
What started as a men's Bible study became a discipleship movement. As lives were transformed by the gospel, another need became obvious.
Many people wanted more than a weekly men's gathering.
They wanted a church committed to faithful Bible teaching, genuine community and intentional discipleship.
That's why Forge Gathered was born.
Forge Ministries now consists of both Forge Men's Group and Forge Gathered Church.
Together we exist to make disciples who know Jesus, love one another genuinely and live courageously in the world.
We believe Christianity is far more than attending services or agreeing with certain beliefs.
Jesus calls ordinary people into an extraordinary life of following Him.
That means growing in holiness.
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Serving others.
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Making disciples.
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Living under His authority in every area of life.
At Forge, we want every person to move from simply attending to actively following Jesus.
Because disciples make disciples.
And transformed people transform communities.
Forge has NO paid staff and operates as volunteers who are actively following Jesus to make disciples.
Our founder and preaching pastor is theologically trained, having completed a Bachelor of Theology through the Queensland Theological College (QTC).
What We Believe
An Independent Evangelical Church
Everything we believe begins with one conviction: God has spoken through His Word the Bible.
The Bible is our final authority for faith and life, and we seek to teach it clearly, faithfully and practically.
At the centre of the Bible is Jesus.
We believe He is fully God and fully man, who lived the perfect life we could never live, died on the cross for our sins, rose bodily from the dead, reigns as King today and will return to judge the living and the dead.
We believe that salvation is entirely by God's grace through faith in Jesus —not through human effort, morality or religious performance.
Every person is created in God's image but has rebelled against Him through sin. Left to ourselves, we cannot save ourselves.
Only through Jesus can we be forgiven, reconciled to God and receive eternal life.
We believe that becoming a Christian is not simply adopting new beliefs.
It is being made new by the Holy Spirit.
This new life produces repentance, obedience, love for God and love for others.
We believe the local church is God's primary means of growing disciples through the preaching of Scripture, prayer, baptism, the Lord's Supper, fellowship and mission.
We believe every Christian is called to live courageously for Christ wherever God has placed them.
We look forward to the day when Jesus returns to make all things new.
Until then, we seek to faithfully proclaim His gospel and make disciples of all nations.