Quest is an intensive “discipleship” opportunity based on intimacy, genuine relationship, and shared life.

In our culture, most education and training takes place in a lecture format. A teacher or instructor passes on primarily information and knowledge to passive student/listeners. This is a Greek or “Gentile” method of learning: receive instruction then act. It is not necessarily a wrong paradigm, to be categorically disvalued, it is just limited.

Jesus taught from a Semitic perspective that is opposite: do then teach (Acts 1:1, Matt. 5:19). Jesus would often do a work or miracle, or have a life experience, and then afterward, take His small group of disciples aside (who had been experiencing life with Him all along) and explain to them what had just occurred, interpreting or explaining the significance of the event or action.

While the Kingdom transcends all culture, and culture should not be read into, or out of the Scripture, there remains a lesson to be learned. There is a growing hunger, a quest, across the Universal Body of Christ for training and equipping that is relationally and “life” based, rather than classroom-lecture based. Quest is an attempt to meet that need.