What is a Bypass Church or Satellite?

You may be asking, “What’s the difference between a Bypass Church and a Bypass Satellite?”

A Bypass Church is simply a group who wish to start a church based on the Bypass model and are willing to come under Bypass Ministries for training, direction and accountability in the first 24 months.

A Bypass Satellite is a group who wish to follow the same guidelines stated above but have an existing relationship with another church. Both of which are join together to create a satellite using the Bypass model and remain linked together in an effort to reach an area evangelistically while providing “critical need-based” ministries to the community.

Keep in mind, a group may be drawn to this model and thereby start a church in a suburban area using the BPM model. Over time, this same group as it gains strength, wishes to develop a Bypass satellite in an unreached perhaps, inner city area void of many of the resources required to maintain a church and meet the needs of the community.

Note: An existing church, which may feel as if they are dying and are no longer viable to its community, choses to implement the BPM model is an effort to rediscover their calling.

What a Bypass Church or Satellite is not.

BPS are not for the disenfranchised who are merely angry at their local church but rather for the follower of Christ who believes that the western church needs to return to a NT model centered not on capital investments much of which are designed for the comfort and convenience of the congregation but instead, for the express purpose of evangelism, discipleship and maximized ministry to the broken and hurting of our communities.
BPS is not for the freedom of meandering in and out of neither orthodoxy nor theology.
BPS is neither Reformed Theology (Calvinism) nor Arminian in its theological identity, but recognizes the unresolved tension of the Sovereignty of God and the free will of man.
Note: Check the earlier BFM (Baptist Faith & Message) Hershel Hobbs
BPM are not Pentecostal in their doctrine / rejecting the belief that the follower of Christ repents and receives Christ and at some point in the future has what Pentecostals term a “second work of grace” meaning “baptism in the Holy Spirit” evidenced by the “speaking in tongues” / an ecstatic language.
The lack of doctrinal integrity and the attempt to bring theological confusion will sever the relationship of satellite to host church and if needed from BPM.