Reclaim your ordinary.
We believe we experience a full spiritual life by following Jesus in our everyday, ordinary lives.
We want to help answer that question. We’ve put together a simple framework for discipleship that helps us follow Jesus in the ordinary, feel the fullness of life Jesus promises, and become more like him.
How do you follow Jesus?
Better Metrics
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Moments of Forgiveness
Relationships are essential to our lives as disciple-missionaries. Our relationships have a real impact on us, and this means conflict can really hurt. But in the Gospel, the ability to release the power of our hurt is also real (1 John 1v9). Just as Christ has restored relationship with us, we are also able to forgive others for the real wrong they have done to us.
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Groups Intentionally Listening
As disciple-missionaries, Jesus has established us as partners in his mission. Through our lives, we have the choice to either build the kingdom of God or build our own kingdoms. Listening to Yahweh and his Spirit allows us to encounter the presence of Jesus Christ and intentionally build his kingdom through how we listen and respond in the small, routine parts of our lives.
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Meals Shared
Whether over coffee, outside at a park, or after the drive-through, we believe sharing a meal can be a sacred space. By inviting others to share meals with us, we create opportunities to intentionally build relationships as well as invite other people to worship Yahweh. As disciple-missionaries, we are able to become like Jesus through how we eat with others.
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People Living as Locals
What if where we live and who we live next to is a part of our discipleship? When Jesus teaches us to “love our neighbor”, this means we help build the kingdom of Yahweh through our intentional presence as a local. How we know, care for, and seek the good of those who are literally right around us - the people in our neighborhoods, work places, campuses, and cities - is a way our everyday lives become a part of our discipleship.
Our Paradigm Shifts
From Linear to Circular
We tend to view our personal discipleship kind of like “levels.” We believe that if we do something “better”, then we are “leveling up” in spiritual maturity.
But we’ve found this framework to be lacking. Discipleship isn’t a linear process of upward success; instead, it’s much more like a circle. We’ve created a visit and revisit model of discipleship, where the outcome is not a “level up”, but Jesus becoming more and more present in your everyday life.
From Performance to Process
Discipleship is a process. Instead of being something that focuses only on our “successes” (and can bring about a lot of anxiety when we “fail”) Jesus invites us to a process of becoming like him.
Our discipleship model helps make this real by providing opportunities to honestly engage with the rhythms of our lives and focus on the process of becoming like Jesus, not our performance.
From Extraordinary to Ordinary
To connect with Yahweh, we’ve found that many of us strive for the mountaintop experience. We’ve been taught that seeking the extraordinary or living extraordinarily is what it means to be a Christian.
But we believe that Jesus desperately wants to meet us in our ordinary lives, not just the extraordinary. Our model of discipleship helps others encounter Jesus in their normal life rhythms.
From Information to Formation
We’ve found that a lot of us believe learning about God will make us become more like God. And while we love learning about God, we know that information alone does not make us a better disciple.
Spiritual maturity comes through a process of formation. That’s why our discipleship model focuses on the normal, everyday parts of our lives as opportunities for spiritual formation and maturity.
Our Team
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Ruben Reyes III was born and raised in Southern California. At age 22 he planted Solid Rock Church in Claremont, California with a vision to make disciples, train leaders, and plant churches. Currently, Ruben serves as the Pastor for Leadership and Culture at Solid Rock Church, a multiethnic, intergenerational community.
In addition, Ruben serves with the Send Network to help plant churches throughout Los Angeles. Ruben loves church planters and has worked to help plant various churches while also providing care to planters throughout Southern California.
Ruben is a graduate of Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon where he graduated with a Masters in Applied Biblical Leadership. Ruben currently lives in Pomona, California with his wife Alexis and their two children.
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Born and raised in the Inland Empire, Jay is married to his beautiful bride, Tiffany, and together, they have four really cool kids. In 2023, they planted Portrait Church with eleven of their friends in Redlands, CA with a vision to give people a renewed picture of Jesus and his church. They’ve seen Portrait bloom into a gospel-centered, intergenerational, multi-ethnic church committed to reorienting their lives around the way of Jesus through discipleship.
Jay is passionate about disarming people’s preconceived notions about Jesus and what it means to follow him.
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Gabby Bingham is a counselor and director who lives in Upland, California.
Nearly a decade ago, Gabby and her husband, Hunter, followed Yahweh’s invitation to move to southern California from midwest America. She quickly got involved in the local church and began to help others discover what it means to follow Jesus and become more like him in their relationships.
Gabby is passionate about helping others experience the gospel through their vulnerability and live in secure relationships with Yahweh and each other.
Gabby owns a small counseling practice and works with individuals and couples. She also serves as an Executive Director at Solid Rock Church in Claremont, California, where she attends with her husband, Hunter, and their two sons.
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Hunter Bingham currently serves as pastor for teaching and formation at Solid Rock Church in Claremont, CA. In this capacity, Hunter preaches regularly, oversees groups, and helps care for and develop leaders. Hunter’s passionate about people seeing all of life become worship and helping people discover their gifting and calling to lead.
Before pastoring, Hunter worked with Fellowship of Christian Athletes Baseball, a nonprofit committed to sharing the gospel and making disciples of baseball players and coaches in southern California and beyond. Hunter helped lead camps, and a summer collegiate team and would serve as a chaplain.
Hunter has been married to Gabby since 2015 and together they have two sons, Callahan and Desmond.
Give to Ordinary
By giving to Ordinary, you’re helping empower others as they let go of the pressure of performance and instead learn what it means to follow Jesus in their ordinary lives.